by Salman Rushdie · PLON · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782259195164
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Furie» is the novel by Salman Rushdie, published by Plon in paperback (294 pages, in French).
Professor Malik Solanka flees London for New York to start over, but his past, his memories, and a growing rage pursue him. After abandoning teaching the history of ideas, he devotes himself to creating strange thinking dolls, while a mysterious killer operates in the city. The novel, translated from English, is a ferocious satire of contemporary society and the American way of life, with female characters such as Mila and Neela in a web of violence, desire, and redemption.
French edition of «Fury», translated by Christophe Claro and published in the Feux Croisés collection. The original English edition appeared in 2001.
Recommended for readers of Rushdie and contemporary fiction with social satire.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
