THE BOOK
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
1/28/01
Reviewed by Michael Gorra

PRE-REVIEW BUZZ
A boost from mentor Michael Cunningham got the math professor an agent, a New Yorker excerpt, and a $350,000 deal.

LEAST-FAVORABLE PART OF THE REVIEW
“Suri seems content … to let his characters remain comic types, depicted with a verve that doesn’t reveal their depths so much as it does their shallows.”

SALES
200,000

CAREER TRAJECTORY
Suri’s planned trilogy is taking a while: The second book, The Age of Shiva, is due next January.