Fury A Novel

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. Fury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force. It is also an astonishing portrait of New York. Not since the Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel.

Salman Rushdie is the author of seven novels--<i>Grimus, Midnight's Children </i>(for which he won the Booker Prize and the "Booker of Bookers"), <i>Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh,</i> and<i> The Ground Beneath Her Feet</i>--and one work of short stories,<i> East, West</i>. He has also published four works of non-fiction: <i>The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz,</i> and <i>Mirrorwork</i>.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>