Description:
Salman Rushdie's Fury is a dark comedy that combines storytelling
with a commentary on 21st-century American society. Fifty-five-year-old
Malik Solanka is having a midlife crisis. A former philosophy professor
and creator of a popular doll known as "Little Brain," Malik
is very close to doing violence. Living in self-imposed exile in Manhattan
during the summer of 2000, he has just left his second wife in London
after finding himself consumed by thoughts of murder. He finds himself
riddled with guilt that about his fleeting thoughts of bumping off his
wife.
Our panel:
Nancy Pearl
Robin Holabird
Janet White
Rob Bills
Links
for this book:
The WAG: A Magazine
for Decadent Readers
Guardian
Unlimited
Also by this author:
Midnight's
Children; Penguin USA; January 1991
The Satanic Verses; Penguin USA; February 1989
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