Fury

My first brush with Salman Rushdie proved to be, frankly, uneventful (perhaps like my experience with Coetzee’s “Disgrace”, sorta, kinda). He writes of this “fury, born of long injustice, beside which his own unpredictable temper was a thing of pathetic insignificance, the indulgence, perhaps, of a......more

I dont understand why it has garnered so many negative reviews. Once you plow past the initial few pages of languid storytelling and excessive emphasis on unimportant details, its a truly enthralling read. The narrative vacillates from borderline facetious to a melancholic antipode. Its a given that......more

Rushdie wants us to see the "fury" inside the main character Solanka, but what we see is basically, a 55-year-old man abandoning his wife and kid without saying a word because 'he was afraid he would hurt them', moving to NYC, having an affair with a quite young and attractive neighbour, and then du......more

What lies dormant beneath our skin waiting to rise up and destroy us and the world around us? What demons do we push deep into our bellies and hope to forget only to have them claw their way out in a new form? The truth is that the raw emotion that we curtail can lead to our salvation.......more

You'd want to qoute every single line in this novel.......more