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Grimus is a 1975 fantasy and science fiction novel by Salman Rushdie. It was his literary debut. The story loosely follows Flapping Eagle, a young Native American man who receives the gift of immortality by drinking a magic fluid.
- Salman Rushdie
- 1975
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.
1 de jan. de 2001 · Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis and sets out to scale the island's peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits.
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24 de ago. de 2023 · La romancière Leïla Slimani vient rendre hommage sur le plateau à Salman Rushdie. Plus qu'un écrivain qu'elle admire, elle considère celui qu'elle a rencontré il y a plusieurs années sur le plateau de "La grande librairie" comme un ami.
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Salman Rushdie’s celebrated debut novel remains as powerful and as haunting as when it was first published more than thirty years ago. “A book to be read twice . . . [Grimus] is literate, it is...
- Salman Rushdie
- Random House Publishing Group, 2009
- 0307529118, 9780307529114
- Grimus: A Novel
5 de nov. de 2010 · Grimus. Salman Rushdie. Knopf Canada, Nov 5, 2010 - Fiction - 320 pages. After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven...
Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis and sets out to scale the island’s peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits.
