Malik Solanka, the dapper middle-aged hero of Salman Rushdie's eighth novel, wakes up one day in the middle of his life to find himself living alone in New York City and pursued by Furies. He has ...

Malik Solanka, a Bombay-born, Cambridge-educated millionaire, has come to New York to escape a disintegrating marriage and the bouts of uncontrollable fury that have started to afflict him.