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FURY is a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel.FURY opens on a New York living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives looking, perversely, for escape. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of the hugely popular doll, Little Brain, whose multiform ubiquity - as puppet, cartoon and masked woman - now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating: it escalates into a rage-filled battle, and Solanka very nearly commits an unforgiveable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees home and family and becomes a sort of spiritual mendicant - except that he has a credit card and a duplex on the Upper West Side.Solanka discovers that he has come to a city roiling with anger, where cab drivers spout invective and a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats and bone-deep resentment. His own thoughts, emotions and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild.
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Fury, Salman Rushdie
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2001
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- Titel
- Fury
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Salman Rushdie
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2001
- Formaat
- Hardcover
- Aantal pagina's
- 259
- ISBN10
- 0224061593
- ISBN13
- 9780224061599
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Liefde, Familie, Hedendaagse literatuur, Verenigde Staten, Dood, Engeland, Samenleving, Maatschappelijke romans, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Herinneringen, Engelse literatuur, Matrimonium, New York, Londen, Indië, Ontsnapping, Magisch realisme, Vader, Jaloezie, Zoeken naar jezelf, Woede, boosheid
- Eerste editie
- 2001
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- Fury
- Beoordeling
- 3,35 van 5
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- FURY is a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel.FURY opens on a New York living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives looking, perversely, for escape. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of the hugely popular doll, Little Brain, whose multiform ubiquity - as puppet, cartoon and masked woman - now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating: it escalates into a rage-filled battle, and Solanka very nearly commits an unforgiveable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees home and family and becomes a sort of spiritual mendicant - except that he has a credit card and a duplex on the Upper West Side.Solanka discovers that he has come to a city roiling with anger, where cab drivers spout invective and a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats and bone-deep resentment. His own thoughts, emotions and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild.