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 Solanka, 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 turns 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, about culture, about 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, 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
