
"A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present-day . . . Thunderous and touching." - Financial Times After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing...


The extraordinary literary debut of Salman Rushdie


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After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing-and ultimately the burden-of living forever. Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous...


