Fury: A Novel (Modern Library)
 

Fury: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)

by Salman Rushdie

Fury is a gloss on fin-de-siècle angst from the master of the quintuple entendre. Salman Rushdie hauls his hero, Malik Solanka, from Bombay to London to New York, and finally to a fictional Third World country, all in order to show off a preternatural ability to riff on anything from Bollywood musicals to revolutionary politics. Professor Solanka is propelled on this path by his strange love... (read more)

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Fascinating and precise social commentary.

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svisakh
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Cant belive such a stupid author claims world wide recognition. All i could perceive was random incoherent rambling of the author's mind (in short what ever came to author's mind) jotted down in a high brow language with tough words scrunged off a Webster's. Consider this: "Digitized packets of love going halfway across the world through the fibre optical cables in the Atlantic bed". Only reason i suffered through the book is to find out the ending, and to my horror, the climax was the most...

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