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Manil Suri
Manil Suri is the internationally acclaimed author of The Death of Vishnu and other books. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages and received several honors, including winning the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and being longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is a distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and lives with his husband in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Manil Suri
Manil Suri is the internationally acclaimed author of The Death of Vishnu and other books. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages and received several honors, including winning the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and being longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is a distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and lives with his husband in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Awards
Winner — Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, 2001
Winner — New York Times Notable Selection, 2001
Shortlisted — PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2002
Shortlisted — PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, 2023
Books by Manil Suri

The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
Manil Suri
Hardback, 2022
Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts—from arithmetic to infinity—that form the...
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
Manil Suri
Paperback, 2023

A Room in Bombay: A Memoir
Manil Suri
Hardback, 2026
A best-selling novelist turns to memoir in this compelling story of a son’s love, a mother’s obsession, and the malevolent grip of the past.
A Room in Bombay: A Memoir
Manil Suri
E Book
A best-selling novelist turns to memoir in this compelling story of a son’s love, a mother’s obsession, and the malevolent grip of the past.



