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Math professors are not usually known for their literary prowess. So when Manil Suri, 41, a professor of numerical analysis at the University of Maryland, applied for Pulitzer-prizewinning author Michael Cunningham's writing workshop in 1997, Cunningham had no particular reason for high hopes. But as soon as he began reading Suri's book, he was bowled over. "I knew from the first sentence that he was not only accepted into the class, but that he had a voice," says Cunningham. "Sentence for sentence, he is a beautiful and entirely original writer...
...number of other people have reached the same conclusion about the Bombay-born novelist. Early this year, 11 publishing houses fought over The Death of Vishnu, Suri's first novel, in a heated auction. W.W. Norton won, paying a $350,000 advance for the American rights. Since then, rights have been sold in 13 countries. The book will be published next January...
...Vishnu of Suri's lyrical novel is a drunk who lies dying on the steps of a Bombay apartment house while the neighbors squabble over who will pay for an ambulance. If anyone is familiar with cold calculation, it is Suri. "I've worked very hard at math," he says. "I can't see myself giving...
There the votes will be tallied live on C-SPAN in a broadcast anchored by Mary Alice Williams of CNN and several New York City high schoolers. "This gives students a chance to feel like they are part of something bigger," says Jeremi Suri, 16. Erin Murphy, 17, thinks the mock election will be taken seriously by politicians. After all, she says, "many of us will be voting for real in the next presidential election...
...terms that describe the ji-hada or patterns left on the steel by repeated folding and hammering-pine tree bark, catfish skin, straight grain and sugu-ut-suri, "a straight misty line of cloud"-are all derived from nature...