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Salman Rushdie
A dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age–a tour de force that is as much an homage to an immortal work of literature as it is to the quest for…
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From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the…
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An epic tale with a message for us all - our power is fleeting, but our stories last forever. This is Salman Rushdie at his best. A magical realist feminist…
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A moving and life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from internationally renowned writer Salman Rushdie
A moving and life-affirming memoir about survival and the power…
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Haroun’s father is the greatest storyteller. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories…
When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities and reinvent themselves as Roman emperors living in…
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This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. With one foot in the East and one foot in the West…
"Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power…
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring-and surviving-an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa…
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries-from the transcendent imagination…
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India’s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared…
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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful
A beautiful hardback edition of a modern Indian classic and winner of 'The Best of the Booker' - the best novel from Booker…
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*A SUNDAY TIMES ‘BOOKS OF 2021’ PICK*
From ‘Best of the Booker’ winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on…
Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India’s…
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning…
Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece from one of the greatest living writers. In the near future, after a storm strikes New…
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered…
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Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most important writers of politicised fiction. This study examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie’s fiction springs in order…
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S?ren Frank
Analyses five of Rushdie’s novels, Grimes , Midnight’s Children , Shame , The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet . This volume is an original contribution to the…
Presents a portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua. This book brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the…
Containing 74 essays, 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…
Esta es la historia de Saleem Sinai, nacido en Bombay al filo de la medianoche del 15 de agosto de 1947, en el momento mismo en que la India, entre…
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries--from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling…
IMAGINE you are Luka, a twelve-year-old boy who has to save the life of the storyteller father you adore. IMAGINE you have two loyal companions by your side: a bear…
When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He calls…
Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie’s remarkable imaginative and observational…
A self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, the author explores the true meaning of home. He looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are…
The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything.
‘The first great rock 'n’ roll novel in the English language’ The Times On Valentine’s Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake.
The author of The Satanic Verses returns with his most humorous and accessible novel yet. This is the story of Haroun, a 12-year-old boy whose father Rashid is the greatest…
An epic tale with a message for us all- our power is fleeting, but our stories last forever. This is Salman Rushdie at his best. A magical realist feminist tale…
A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted.
Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives looking, perversely, for escape. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of the popular doll, Little Brain, whose multiform ubiquity…
Haroun’s father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out…
Vina Aspara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama…
For more than 50 years, The Paris Review has published revelatory and revealing interviews with the literary lights of our age. This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup…
Originally published in hardcover by Random House, 2017.
In a modern adaptation of Don Quixote, a courtly, addled salesman embarks on a cross-country journey with his imaginary son Sancho to find and convince a television star of his…
Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century-including many texts never previously in print-by the Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author
Longlisted for the…
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries-from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling…
When a Jumbo jet blows apart above the English Channel, Gabreel and Saladin miraculously survive and are washed up on a beach. However, it appears that curious changes have come…
The author of The Stananic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. Rushdie has…
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…
Winner of England’s prestigious Whitbread Ward, Rushdie’s first novel in seven years is a peppery melange of genres: a deliciously inventive family saga; a subversive alternate history of modern India…
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. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane…
