Author of The City of Devi wins Literary Review prize thanks to threesome set in nuclear-threatened Mumbai
Manil Suri's publishers accepted the bad sex award on his behalf, and urged readers to take the book to bed. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images
Among the pools of sweat, ripe brie, knotted vines, hot stones, damp glades and chocolatey tobacco in this year's entries, it was the exploding supernovas of Manil Suri's third novel, The City of Devi, that clinched him the most dreaded award in the world of books: the Literary Review bad sex prize.
It was presented by Joan Collins – who has unaccountably never won the prize herself despite her many novels and memoirs – in a ceremony attended by 400 guests at the Naval and Military Club in London: the club is generally known as the In & Out.
Suri – who has previously been longlisted for the Man Booker and shortlisted for the Faulkner awards – lives in the US, where he is professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland. He was unable to attend the prize ceremony, but a representative of his publisher Bloomsbury accepted it on his behalf.
He was in a competitive field this year. However the judges were seduced by the climax of a sex scene – set in a curfewed Mumbai under threat of a nuclear bomb – involving all three of his main characters: Sarita, her physicist husband Karun and a young gay man.
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It was presented by Joan Collins – who has unaccountably never won the prize herself despite her many novels and memoirs – in a ceremony attended by 400 guests at the Naval and Military Club in London: the club is generally known as the In & Out.
Suri – who has previously been longlisted for the Man Booker and shortlisted for the Faulkner awards – lives in the US, where he is professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland. He was unable to attend the prize ceremony, but a representative of his publisher Bloomsbury accepted it on his behalf.
He was in a competitive field this year. However the judges were seduced by the climax of a sex scene – set in a curfewed Mumbai under threat of a nuclear bomb – involving all three of his main characters: Sarita, her physicist husband Karun and a young gay man.
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