Rushdie's new novel

LONDON, MARCH 25. Controversial India-born author Salman Rushdie has come out with his latest novel `Fury', about a middle-aged intellectual whose life bears a close resemblance to his own, even as he came under the ``fury'' of the Dutch literary community.

The book was published last week in Holland, where 725,000 copies were given away in a government-subsidised reading scheme, The Sunday Times reported today.

The book would go on sale in Britain and the United States in September. The main character Malik Solanka, a 55-year-old professor, is born in India, like the Bombay-born Rushdie. He later comes to live in England and, like the author, flees to New York. He leaves his wife Eleanor and their three-year-old son and flees to New York after the ``furies'' take hold of him. In America, he falls for the beautiful Neela. The narrative includes serial killers, the coup in Fiji, the New York street life and high-society parties.

Holland's literary community is angry that for the first time, the Government has funded a foreign writer to contribute to their annual book week.

- PTI

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