2006 Random House Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 1975 by Salman Rushdie
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This work was originally published in 1975 in the United Kingdom by Victor Gollanez Ltd. and in 1979 in the United States by Overlook Press, Woodstock, N.Y
This edition published by arrangement with the author.
The author would like to thank Messrs. Faber & Faber for permission to quote from “The Four Quartets,” T. S. Eliot:
Collected Poems 1909-1962
, and from “Crow’s Playmates,” Ted Hughes:
Crow
.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Rushdie, Salman.
Grimus: a novel/Salman Rushdie.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-52911-4
1. Indians of North America—Fiction. 2. Seafaring life—Fiction. 3. Immortalism—Fiction. 4. Mortality—Fiction. 5. Islands—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6068.U757G7 2003
823’.914—dc22
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