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Country Great Britain Publication date 2001 Pages 259 pp Originally published 2001 Publisher Jonathan Cape | 3.3/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Hardcover) ISBN 0-224-06159-3 OCLC 47036146 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fiction, Novel, Speculative fiction Similar Salman Rushdie books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fury, published in 2001, is the seventh novel by postcolonial author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie deploys a Roman conceit as an extended metaphor throughout the novel as he depicts contemporary New York City as the epicenter of globalization and all of its tragic flaws.
Plot summary
Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated millionaire from Bombay, is looking for an escape from himself. At first he escapes from his academic life by immersing himself into a world of miniatures (after becoming enamored with the miniature houses on display at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), eventually creating a puppet called "Little Brain" and leaving the academy for television.
However, dissatisfaction with the rising popularity of "Little Brain" serves to ignite deeper demons within Solanka's life, resulting in the narrowly avoided murder of his wife and child. To further escape, Solanka travels to New York, hopeful he can lose himself and his demons in America, only to find that he is forced to confront himself.