Fury

Description

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinary, abandons his family one day and flees to New York. There's a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York in the highest hour of America's wealth and power, seeking to 'erase' himself. But fury is all around him. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. A woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn towards a different fury - her roots lie on the far side of the world.

Sir Salman Rushdie has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

"Both a howl of rage and a love letter... Rushdie is a very great novelist - our greatest" Guardian "Thrilling writing... A simmering novel, as crammed with passion and potholes as New York streets" Independent "Rushdie is an irrepressibly playful entertainer, as well as a web-weaving storyteller" Financial Times "Rushdie has found inspiration in new York, and pulls apart the city's every nuance in this dark and brilliant comedy" GQ "A writer of breathtaking originality" Financial Times