Fury - A Novel

Zusatztext "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! in my opinion! at the very front rank of contemporary literary novelists." --Michael Pakenham! Baltimore Sun "Rushdie's ideas--about society! about culture! about politics--are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. His reflective power lies in the way his fiction simply unfolds. 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! 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 Informationen zum Autor Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, East, West; a memoir, Joseph Anton; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three collections of essays, most recently Languages of Truth . His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America. His books have been translated into over forty languages. Klappentext In his eighth novel! Rushdie brilliantly entwines moments of anger and frenzy with those of humor! honesty! and intimacy. Not since the "Bombay of Midnight's Children" have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel. Leseprobe Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age. Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired. The city boiled with money. Rents and property values had never been higher, and in the garment industry it was widely held that fashion had never been so fashionable. New restaurants opened every hour. Stores, dealerships, galleries struggled to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ever more recherch produce: limited-edition olive oils, three-hundred-dollar corkscrews, customized Humvees, the latest anti-virus software, escort services featuring contortionists and twins, video installations, outsider art, featherlight shawls made from the chin-fluff of extinct mountain goats. So many people were doing up their apartments that supplies of high-grade fixtures and fittings were at a premium. There were waiting lists for baths, doorknobs, imported hardwoods, antiqued fireplaces, bidets, marble slabs. In spite of the recent falls in the value of the Nasdaq index and the value of Amazon stock, the new technology had the city by the ears: the talk was still of start-ups, IPOs, interactivity, the unimaginable future that h...

Product details

• Authors: Salman Rushdie
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.08.2002
• EAN: 9780679783503
• ISBN: 978-0-679-78350-3
• No. of pages: 259
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Series: MODERN LIBRARY; Modern Library Paperbacks; MODERN LIBRARY; Modern Library Paperbacks
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature