'The City of Devi combines, in a magician's  feat, the thrill of Bollywood with the pull of a thriller. Set in a city at the brink of the end, this is fiercely imagined story of three souls haunted by a love that will change their most elemental ideas of identity' Kiran Desai.

'Manil Suri is a major storyteller of heart and Intelligence' Amy Tan.

'Manil Suri has been likened to Narayan Coetzee, Naipaul Chekhov and Flaubert. But Suri has developed a voice of his own his eye for a story, his with and astute observations of human folly, indicate that one day he may himself be someone to be compared to' Independent.