After Buckaroo Banzai this was a breath of fresh air. His previous novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, weighing 600 pages, was not very commercially succesful. So Salman vowed to write shorter books and this is his first kick at the can.
- 2001, Fury, 259 Pages
- 2005, Shalimar the Clown, 398 pages
- 2008, The Enchantress of Florence, 352 pages
- …
After this book he does increase his page count to the 400 page range. He must have gotten his mojo back after the defeat of The Ground Beneath Her Feet. This wasn’t an enjoyable read because I didn’t enjoy the protagonist, but it was short enough that I wouldn’t give it an unfavourable review. It’s definitely a transitional novel in the long career of an author.