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Fury’s placement in the midst of the vortex of New York is the most immediately obvious change from Rushdie’s previous works. Malik Solanka, the novel’s protagonist, has, like Rushdie, recently relocated to New York after many years’ residence in England. It rapidly becomes clear that Solanka is an unashamed alter-ego to Rushdie; both have been married twice, both attended Cambridge, both were born in Bombay. It is not unreasonable to assume that the fury of the title, a fury with the ever increasing pace and inhumanity of modern...
Both Mrowka and Mesnik learned of five or six friends who had also been lucky. One friend had stopped for coffee on the way to work. Another had been assigned to jury duty. One of Robbason’s friends, Ayesha Malik ’97, was still making her way to an interview...
Fury is the fictional story of former professor Malik Solanka, who flees to New York City to escape his own demons. His hobby is his animated doll, Little Brain, who meets the world’s great thinkers in a successful television show...
...group--Tariq (Black Thought) Trotter, drummer Ahmir (?uestlove) Thompson, keyboardist Kamal Gray, bassist Leonard (Hub) Hubbard, vocal percussionists Kyle (Scratch) Jones and Rozell (Rahzel) Brown [not pictured] and Malik (Malik B.) Abdul-Bassit--is time tested. In various incarnations, they have been together since 1987. When you see ?uestlove with his big Afro behind the drum kit, you know you're going to get a good show...
...this barely detracts from an album that parties, swings and sings its way all over the Americas, with Africa ever lurking beneath the surface. Look out for this album come Grammy time next year, wherever it’s categorized. —Malik...