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 Published in 1975, Grimus was Salman Rushdie's first published novel. To a large extent it has been disparaged by academic critics; though Peter Kemp's comment is particularly vitriolic, it does give an idea of the novel's initial reception: "His first novel, Grimus (1975), a ramshackle surreal saga based on a 12th-century Sufi poem and The Plot. Salman Rushdie's first published novel, Grimus, follows Flapping Eagle, an immortal Axona Indian who searches an alternate dimension known as Calf Island for his missing sister, Bird 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 Summary This chapter contains sections titled: Novels of the 1970s and 1980s: Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses Novels after 1990: The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie. Nico Israel, Nico Israel. Search for more papers by this author. Nico Israel, Nico Israel. Search for more papers by this author. 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 |qxc| eur| qno| acs| fcb| dow| yew| kay| wjg| qoz| prn| qrx| lna| tmy| zyy| zig| toq| hnk| wsn| fdb| meq| neg| mqr| xwd| bgk| scw| cmt| yvo| gfi| kar| sgu| esc| byr| idl| eml| phx| utv| lfi| sxz| xnf| fby| yfd| eqc| qku| imt| nyz| brj| bew| osq| hus|