Fury, by Salman Rushdie (used)

‘He writes like an angel: an erudite, playful, imaginative, wildly intelligent angel…the cadences of every paragraph as graceful as landing swans…Rushdie is an irrepressibly playful entertainer, as well as a web-weaving storyteller’ – Financial Times

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees to 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. Cab drivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. Meanwhile, his own thoughts, emotions and desires are also running wild. A young woman in a D'Angelo baseball cap is in store. Also another woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn towards a different fury, whose roots lie on the far side of the world.

'Thrilling writing ... A simmering novel, as crammed with passion and potholes as a New York street' –

– Independent

‘Rushdie has found inspiration in New York, and pulls apart the city’s every nuance in this dark and brilliant comedy’ – GQ

Condition: good, crack in spine