Grimus

by Salman Rushdie Narrated by Henrik Hartvig Jørgensen

Overview

Efter at have drukket en eliksir, der gør ham udødelig, tilbringer den unge indianer Flaksende Ørn de næste syv hundrede år med at sejle på verdenshavene. Men det evige liv, der i lang tid var en velsignelse, forvandler sig langsomt til en byrde. Denne verdens ensformighed er udmattende, og han beslutter sig for at rejse til den bjergrige Kalveøen for at genvinde sin dødelighed. Her møder han andre udødelige, der alle er besatte af deres stilstand, og Flaksende Ørn begiver sig ud for at bestige øens højeste bjerg, hvorfra den mystiske og nedbrydende Grimuseffekt springer. Gennem en række ekspeditioner og møder på øen, står Flaksende Ørn pludselig ansigt til ansigt med øens skaber for til sidst at optrævle det mysterium, der er hans egen menneskelighed.

GRIMUS er Salman Rushdies bemærkelsesværdige debutroman, som her for første gang foreligger i dansk oversættelse.

Indlæst af Henrik Hartvig Jørgensen 2014.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Grimus is one of those novels some people will say is too good to be science fiction, even though it contains other universes, dimensional doorways, alien creatures, and more than one madman. . . . A book to be read twice . . . Grimus is science fiction in the best sense of the word. It is literate, it is fun, it is meaningful, and perhaps most important, it pushes the boundaries of the form outward.”—Los Angeles Times

“Ambitious, strikingly confident.”—The Times Literary Supplement

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172654459
Publisher:	Gyldendal
Publication date:	12/12/2014
Edition description:	Unabridged
Language:	Danish

Read an Excerpt

After drinking an elixir that bestows him with immortality, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next 700 years sailing the seas with the burden of living forever. Eventually he grows weary of the sameness of life and journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis and he sets out to scale the island’s peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits. Through a series of thrilling quests and encounters, Flapping Eagle comes face to face with the island’s creator and unwinds the mysteries of his own humanity.

Author Biography: Salman Rushdie is the author of eight novels: Fury, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the “Booker of Bookers”), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Grimus, and Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and one collection of short stories, East, West. He has also published a book of reportage, The Jaguar Smile, and an earlier collection of essays, Imaginary Homelands. He lives in New York and London.

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