Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: salman, rushdie, supple, modern, library, paperbacks, tim, simon, midnight, children, adapted, theatre, reade
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-02-18
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0812969030
ISBN-13: 9780812969030
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 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight’s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family--who become inextricably linked when a midwife
Author: M. D. Fletcher
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: rushdie, cross, cultures, salman, fiction, perspectives, reading
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9051837658
ISBN-13: 9789051837650
Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most important writer of the present time. His significant and controversial literary interventions in debates on post-colonial culture and contemporary South Asian Islam are matched by the contribution he has made to postmodern literature in the West (culminating in the award to him in 1993 of the twenty-fifth-anniversary "Booker of Bookers" prize).This collection of articles focuses on Rushdie’s five novels. The context is set by the introduction, "The Politics of Salman Rushdie’s Fiction," which discusses the political stance of Rushdie’s fict
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: novel, fury
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-09-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 067946333X
ISBN-13: 9780679463337
"Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb." Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, shame
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812976703
ISBN-13: 9780812976700
The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men–one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure–Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation–“shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.” Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, shame
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312270933
ISBN-13: 9780312270933
In this brilliant novel, Salman Rushdie masterfully combines history, art, language, politics, and religion.Set in a country "not quite Pakistan," the story centers around the families of two men-one a celebrated warrior, the other, a debauched playboy-engaged in a protracted duel that is played out in the political landscape of their country.Shame is a tour de force and a fitting predecessor to the author’s legendary novel, The Satanic Verses. AUTHORBIO: Salman Rushdie is the author of seven novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stor
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Keywords: novel, fury
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0676974414
ISBN-13: 9780676974416
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: stories, sea, haroun
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1991-11-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140157379
ISBN-13: 9780140157376
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 storyteller in a city so sad that it has forgotten its name. When the gift of gab suddenly deserts Rashid, Haroun sets out on an adventure to rescue his print.
