Manil Suri’s exuberant images of modern-day India, invoking Hindu gods and probing into religious divisions, provide rich scenery for his apocalyptic new novel, The City Of Devi.” The firebombs Suri rains down on Mumbai burn so bright that the human story underneath, of two residents racing to find their mutual lover before the end of the world, can’t live up to its grand scale.
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