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Grimus

Grimus

by SalmanRushdie (Author)

  • New

    Paperback 1996

    $11.59

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    Paperback 1989

    $5.12
Synopsis

Flapping Eagle is a young Indian given the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. Tiring of the burden of immortal life he sets off to find the mystical Calf Island, where he can rejoin the human race. His journey is peopled with strange assortments of characters, including the clumsy, loquacious Virgil Jones; his ugly, tragic companion, Dolores O'Toole; the wicked conjurer, Nicholas Deggle; the dainty, light-spirited Elfrida Gribb; and the enigmatic, pervasive Grimus, creator and controller of the mysterious island. An enticing combination of science fantasy, storytelling and folklore makes this first novel by Salman Rushdie an epic adventure truly unlike any other.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Jul 1996
ISBN 10: 0099592711
ISBN 13: 9780099592716
Book Overview: Salman Rushdie's first, breathtaking novel

Media Reviews
Thunderous and touching Financial Times Engrossing and wonderful Los Angeles Times Ambitious, strikingly confident Times Literary Supplement Stimulating, funny, a thoroughly good read Harpers & Queen A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present day... Grimus is a parallel form of life, and conjuring of an alternative society Financial Times
Author Bio
Sir Salman Rushdie has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the `Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours.