Grimus

Author(s): Salman Rushdie

Fiction

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.

General Information

  • : 9780099592716
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage
  • : 0.232
  • : 01 December 1997
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Salman Rushdie
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : 256
  • : Fantasy

More About The Product

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

Salman Rushdie is the author of eight novels, one collection of short stories, and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. 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. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.