Salman, Rushdie

Fury : a novel / Salman Rushdie - First Edition - New York : Random House , c2001. - 259 p. ; 25 cm.

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. Show More Show Less

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British----United States----Fiction
College teachers----Fiction
Middle aged men----Fiction
Solanka, Malik (Fictitious character)----Fiction


New York (N.Y.)----Fiction


Psychological fiction.

PR6068.U757 / F87 2001

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