"Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of...
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "Salman Rushdie's great grasp of the human tragicomedy- its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors-has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language."--Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe "Fury...
An astounding, intense novel by the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight's Children.