Fury (Rushdie novel)

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Fury (Rushdie novel)

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Fury
First edition
Author	Salman Rushdie
Language	English
Genre	Fiction novel
Publisher	Jonathan Cape
Publication date	2001
Publication place	Great Britain
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	259 pp
ISBN	0-224-06159-3
OCLC	47036146
Preceded by	The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Followed by	Shalimar the Clown

Fury, published in 2001, is the seventh novel by author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie depicts contemporary New York City as the epicenter of globalization and all of its tragic flaws.^[1]^[2]

Plot summary

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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 in the 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.

Reception

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The Daily Telegraph reported on reviews from several publications with a rating scale for the novel out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish": Guardian review under "Love It" and Independent, Observer, and TLS reviews under "Ok" and Daily Telegraph, Times, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Independent On Sunday, Spectator, and Literary Review reviews under "Rubbish".^[3]^[4] The Guardian gave the novel an average rating of 5.3 out of 10 based on reviews from multiple British newspapers.^[5]

References

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^ Gonzalez, Madelena (2014). "United States of Banana (2011), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Fury (2001): Portrait of the Writer as the 'Bad Subject' of Globalisation". Études Britanniques Contemporaines (46). doi:10.4000/ebc.1279.
^ Gonzalez, Madelena (July 2014). "United States of Banana (2011), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Fury (2001): Portrait of the Writer as the 'Bad Subject' of Globalisation". Études britanniques contemporaines. 46 (46 2014). d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines: 1–16. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ "Books of the moment: What the papers say". The Daily Telegraph. 1 September 2001. p. 52. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
^ "Books of the moment: What the papers say". The Daily Telegraph. 8 September 2001. p. 52. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
^ "Review". The Guardian. 1 September 2001. p. 358. Retrieved 19 July 2024.

v t e Salman Rushdie
Novels	Grimus (1975) Midnight's Children (1981) Shame (1983) The Satanic Verses (1988) The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) Fury (2001) Shalimar the Clown (2005) The Enchantress of Florence (2008) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015) The Golden House (2017) Quichotte (2019) Victory City (2023)
Story collections	East, West (1994)
Nonfiction	Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991 (1992) Homeless by Choice (1992) Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002 (2002) The East Is Blue (2004) Languages of Truth (2021)
Plays	Haroun and the Sea of Stories (with Tim Supple and David Tushingham) Midnight's Children (with Tim Supple and Simon Reade)
Screenplays	Midnight's Children (with Deepa Mehta)
Children's books	Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) Luka and the Fire of Life (2010)
Anthology	The Vintage Book of Indian Writing (co-editor)
Short stories	"In the South" (2009)
Memoirs	The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (1987) Joseph Anton: A Memoir (2012) Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (2024)
The Satanic Verses controversy	Cat Stevens comments (1989) 1989 firebombing of the Riverdale Press An Essay on Censorship (1989) The Blasphemers' Banquet (1989) A Brief History of Blasphemy (1990) The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West (1990) International Guerillas (1990) Hitoshi Igarashi (1947–1991) "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (2000) Knighthood (2007) Stabbing (2022)
Related	PEN World Voices

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