Manil Suri is the author of the novels, The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva and The City of Devi, as well as the book on popular mathematics, The Big Bang of Numbers. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages and received several international 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 Maryland, USA.