Fury

Fury 

by Salman Rushdie

Book Overview 

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "Salman Rushdie's great grasp of the human tragicomedy- its dimensions, its absurdities, and horrors-has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language."Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe "Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work of fiction. It reaffirms Rushdie's standing at the very front rank of contemporary literary novelists."Baltimore Sun Malik Solanki, the 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. An astonishing work of explosive energy, Fury is by turn a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a love story of mesmerizing force, and a disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature. "Rushdie's ideas-about society, culture, and politics are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. All of Rushdie's synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient myth and old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfigures reason into a waking dream."Los Angeles Times Book Review "Well, here it is, then, his first 3-D, the full-volume American novel, finger-snapping, wildly stupefying, often slyly funny, red-blooded, and red-toothed. [Fury] twinkles brightly in tragicomic passages."The Miami Herald

From Salman Rushdie, New York Times best-selling author, Booker Prize-winner, and one of the great voices in contemporary literature comes a majestic novel that solidifies the author's right to a Nobel Prize, which Kirkus Reviews says, "he deserves more than any other living writer".

When Maximilian Ophus is murdered outside his daughter's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, it appears to be a political killing. Ophus is the former U.S. ambassador to India and America's leading figure in counterterrorism. But there is much more to Ophus and his assassin, a mysterious man calling himself "Shalimar the Clown" than meets the eye. One woman is at the center of their shared history, a history of betrayal and deception that moves from World War II Europe to the troubled Kashmir region to contemporary America.

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