Grimus - Hardcover

Rushdie, Salman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879510935 ISBN 13: 9780879510930

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 1979

Synopsis

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 its inhabitants, it is both blessed and cursed. Sensing a terrible darkness at the heart of the island, Flapping Eagle sets out to scale the island’s peak and confront its mysterious and potent creator, Grimus himself.

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Review:

"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

From the Publisher:

Salman Rushdie's first novel - reissued with a stunning new jacket

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0879510935
• ISBN 13: 9780879510930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320