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Fury

A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)

By Salman Rushdie

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| Paperback | 9780679783503

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Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world-famous dollmaker, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York. There's a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unpContinue

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world-famous dollmaker, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York. There's a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America's wealth and power, seeking to "erase" himself. But fury is all around him.

Fury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force. It is also an astonishing portrait of New York. Not since the Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel.

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  • The sound and the fury

    Fury Salman Rushdie 259pp, Jonathan Cape, £16.99 "Furor poeticus", literary fury: the gift of the gods. If a man lives by his pen, it's good news. If he's just an ordinary Joe, "fury" is what vengeful women turn on him (Furies, like Harpies, are alwa ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Torn apart in the USA

    Fury Salman Rushdie Cape £16.99, pp 259 In Salman Rushdie's uneasy new novel, 55-year-old Malik Solanka, 'retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker', takes refuge in New York after leaving his wife and three-year-old son in London. America for ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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    A stellar portrait of American culture at the beginning of the new millennium. The writing is insightful and the plot engaging, but not the most amazing work from Rushdie. At this point, Solanka reminds me a little of the elderly scholar of Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memoria de mis ... (continue)

    A stellar portrait of American culture at the beginning of the new millennium. The writing is insightful and the plot engaging, but not the most amazing work from Rushdie. At this point, Solanka reminds me a little of the elderly scholar of Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memoria de mis putas tristes), but less sentimental, less sympathic--shallower, despite his troubled past. Though Rushdie paints his female characters as strong, "independent," and almost as proverbial badasses, he still articulates them with a deep and noticeable taint of misogyny.

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