Malik Solanka, a retired Cambridge historian of ideas and dollmaker who has fled London for New York, tries to escape a rage he cannot explain while his creation Little Brain becomes a global media phenomenon and he is drawn into the affairs of Neela Mahendra and a revolution brewing on the fictional islands of Lilliput-Blefuscu.
Books mentioned in Fury (10)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie: “In Asmaan's revisionist reading of Peter Pan, Captain Hook escaped the crocodile every time.”
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw: “He reminded Solanka of Sergius, the stiff-backed officer in Shaw's Arms and the Man.”
Candide by Voltaire: “'Expect nothing, don't you know,' Dubdub told them, leftist radicals and beaded hairies alike, waving a crumbling copy of Candide.”
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce: “made him plow his way twice through Finnegans Wake.”
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: “cheap rip-offs of Baloo and Kaa from The Jungle Book, unadulterated American accents all over Sherwood Forest.”
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville: “we may use our own world's models here, for the sake of easy comparison—Bartleby the Scrivener, who preferred not to.”
The Castle by Franz Kafka: “Please, no obscurely menacing countryhouse sagas: Brideshead in the style of The Castle.”