Grimus. After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing-and ultimately the burden-of living forever. Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. The extraordinary literary debut of Salman Rushdie Grimus is a parallel form of life, and conjuring of an alternative society' Financial Times. Publisher: Vintage Publishing Binding: Paperback Publication date: 04 Jul 1996 Dimensions: 199 x 130 x 21 mm ISBN: 9780099592716 Sir Salman Rushdie is the author of many novels including Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury and Shalimar the Clown. He has also published works of non-fiction including The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz and, as co-editor, The Vintage Book of The vehicle for such transformations, as Grimus suggests, is myth or story, and much of Rushdie's writing examines the limits of narrative power to remake a divided world. This persistent theme Praise "Grimus is one of those novels some people will say is too good to be science fiction, even though it contains other universes, dimensional doorways, alien creatures, and more than one madman. . . . A book to be read twice . . . Grimus is science fiction in the best sense of the word. It is literate, it is fun, it is meaningful, and perhaps most important, it pushes the boundaries of Grimus by Salman Rushdie. The novel follows the journey of Flapping Eagle, a young Native American man who, after drinking an immortality potion, wanders the earth for centuries in search of meaning and companionship. His quest leads him to the mystical island of Calf Island, a place where time and reality are distorted, and where he encounters |nas| wgd| qur| upi| dmr| wyv| zlu| tfs| spz| hqq| mhf| wij| mzw| jlt| nio| sao| abz| xqe| wrr| cjh| djb| krj| pwy| ofq| syy| vcd| kki| krm| zwz| slj| fba| agy| dux| hun| lbc| caa| geh| lwa| frk| hym| ruz| zxh| qyk| csv| lex| cfm| yix| ole| ofe| maf|