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Review title: unusual, but not for Rushdie
Product review: I always hesitate to pick up a Rushdie as my next read. I have trouble settling in to his language and conventions, having to reread until I can catch his rhythm. This is the first Rushdie (besides Haroun and the Sea of Stories, but that's more elementary) that I could read without turning the pages backward.Malik Solanka is inventor of a modern-day Dora the Explorer who's been turned Bratz by commercialism. Fearing the rage that burns inside him, he leaves his London life and attempts to disappear into the unbranded rush of New York City only to find his internal furor replaced by a much larger external one.I couldn't help thinking ofHeart of Darknessand the twisted trip down the Congo, with itsApocalypse NowMarlon Brando looming at the end. As the story escalates, so do Solanka's shadowy strangers-come-friends (accomplices?) and bizarro never-never-land of Fury.
