Summary
Salman Rushdie’s first, breathtaking novel
The extraordinary literary debut of Salman Rushdie
Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister. But after 777 years of sailing the world’s seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island, a place where his fellow immortals have gathered and created their own version of the human race.
But Calf Island is a strange place - like it…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099592716 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099592711 |
| Author: | Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 1996 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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“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
About The Author
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children - for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary - Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife- Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
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