Book description
From one of the world's truly great writers, Fury is a wickedly
brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who
finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the
Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time and place been so intensely
and accurately captured in a novel. Fury opens on a New York living at
breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence.
Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire,
steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of
explanation, and flees to New York. There is a fury within him, and he
fears that 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. Cab drivers spout invective. A serial
killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and
bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. Meanwhile, his own
thoughts, emotions and desires are also running wild. A young woman in
a D'Angelo baseball cap is in store. Also another woman, with whom he
will fall in love and drawn towards a different fury, whose roots lie
of the far side of the world.
Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen novels, one collection of
short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of
The
Vintage Book of Indian Writing
. In 1993
Midnight's Children
was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the
Booker Prize in its forty year history.
The Moor's Last Sigh
won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion
Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
