Salman Rushdie 
Grimus 

The extraordinary literary debut of Salman Rushdie Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister. But after 777 years of sailing the world s seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island, a place where his fellow immortals have gathered and created their own version of the human race.But Calf Island is a strange place like its inhabitants, it is both blessed and cursed. Sensing a terrible darkness at the heart of the island, Flapping Eagle sets out to scale the island s peak and confront its mysterious and potent creator, Grimus himself.’A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present day… Grimus is a parallel form of life, and conjuring of an alternative society’ Financial Times