Grimus

The first novel by one of our greatest novelists, restored to print by the Modern Library After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing, and ultimately the burden, of living forever. Eventually, he grows weary of the sameness of life and journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis, and he sets out to scale the island's peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits. Through a series of thrilling quests and encounters, Flapping Eagle comes face-to-face with the island's creator and unwinds the mysteries of his own humanity.

Salman Rushdie is the author of eight novels: <b>Fury</b>, <b>The Ground Beneath Her Feet</b>, <b>The Moor’s Last Sigh</b>, <b>Midnight’s Children</b> (for which he won the Booker Prize and the “Booker of Bookers”), <b>Shame</b>, <b>The Satanic Verses</b>, <b>Grimus</b>, and <b>Haroun and the Sea of Stories</b>, and one collection of short stories, <b>East, West</b>. He has also published a book of reportage, <b>The Jaguar Smile</b>, and an earlier collection of essays,<b> Imaginary Homelands</b>. He lives in New York and London.