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"He writes like an angel: an erudite, playful, imaginative, wildly
intelligent angel... the cadences of every paragraph are 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 o
day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees to New York. There
fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives
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 kiler 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