Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize for this novel, which follows the lives of children born on August 15, 1947, the day India became an independent nation. The book is simultaneously the story of one boy's coming of age, a chronicle of the growing pains of the new nation, and a family drama, all told in a magical-realist style that manages to be ...
This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Rushdie, boasts an array of voices both new and recognized. Always a sure bet for gripping, emotionally challenging reading.--"San Diego Union-Tribune."
Rushdie's controversial bestseller, which earned him a sentence of death from the Islamic hierarchy of Iran, is a magical realist fantasy that examines questions of identity and belief. Two survivors of an airplane crash, Saladin and Gibreel, are transformed from ordinary citizens and public figures into personifications of Good and Evil, ...
In Rushdie's humorous and tender novel, Haroun is the 12-year-old son of a famous storyteller. When his father loses his powers of invention, Haroun takes charge, and sets out on a series of adventures that, against all odds, will bring his skills back.
"The Enchantress of Florence" is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. Vivid, gripping, and profoundly moving, this dazzling book is by one of the world's most important living writers.
Salman Rushdie's first full-length novel since THE SATANIC VERSES is the story of a dynasty of spice traders in Bombay. The families in the story are neither Hindu nor Muslim, but Jewish and Christian. Rushdie follows his usual circuitous route to the end of the story, but the telling of the story has always been the point for him: he is a post ...
From the Booker Prize-winning author of "The Satanic Verses" comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. From Indians to Welshmen, rickshaw drivers to occultists, Christopher Columbus to Hamlet's court jester, the characters in "East, West" inhabit a world in which nationality, and even ...
Salman Rushdie's third novel (1983) is a fantastic tale set in an imaginary country that strongly resembles Pakistan--a vast, sprawling canvas that illuminates its history, language, and political landscape. The story, which involves the rivalry between two very different men and their warring families, is essentially a colorful and sharply ...
Rushdie retells the myth of Orpheus and Euridice in the story of two musicians, a rock singer named Vina Apsara and the composer Orpheus Cama. Beginning with Vina's death in an earthquake, the novel travels back to tell the stories of these two characters as they intertwine with many others. Eventually, Vina is reincarnated, and the lovers find ...
The man who was known for years as Shalimar the Clown is now a Kashmiri Muslim terrorist named Noman Sher Noman, who brutally murders Max Ophuls, an American diplomat (and counter-terrorism expert), in Los Angeles in 1991 after his wife, Boonyi, has an affair with Ophuls. This killing sets off the chain of events in Salman Rushdie's ninth novel. ...
Salman Rushdie's very topical eighth novel is about a retired historian named Malik Solanka who makes his way through New York City in a state of often comic, always indignant anger. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
Containing 74 essays written over the last ten years, this book covers a range of subjects including the literature of the perceived masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries, the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture, film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice and the preciousness of the ...
For Rushdie The Wizard of Oz is more than a children's film, and more than a fantasy. It's a story 'whose driving force is the inadequacy of adults', in which the 'weakness of grown-ups forces children to take control of their own destinies'.
In THE BABURNAMA, Babur, a descendant of Genghis Khan and a refined, educated, and well-travelled prince, left behind an unparalleled memoir of his life and times--the central document most often quoted by historians and scholars of Mughal India.
The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years. In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 ...
Edited by Paul Auster, this four-volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes have been specially bound with covers featuring images central to Beckett's works. Typographical errors that remained uncorrected in the various prior ...
Essays from Rushdie on such subjects as THE WIZARD OF OZ, the band U2, Kosovo, the 2002 U.S. election, and his younger days in India. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize for this novel, which follows the lives of children born on August 15, 1947, the day India became an independent nation. The book is simultaneously the story of one boy's coming of age, a chronicle of the growing pains of the new nation, and a family drama, all told in a magical-realist style that manages to be ...
For Rushdie contains the first collection of texts by Arab and Muslim writers from Maghreb to the Middle East, from Iran, Turkey, from Bangladesh, and the former Soviet Union, who express their support for both Rushdie and the right to free expression. This collection represents an unprecedented political act. Not content merely to shed new light ...
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