Manil Suri's comic prose and imaginative language transport readers to the petty squabbles and unrelenting conflicts of modern-day india. At the center of the narrative is the character of vishnu, an aging alcoholic hous...Manil Suri's comic prose and imaginative language transport readers to the petty squabbles and unrelenting conflicts of modern-day india. At the center of the narrative is the character of vishnu, an aging alcoholic houseboy on the precipice of death, who lies, penniless, on the bottom step of a middle-class bombay apartment house.