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Joseph Anton - A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
Category: Biography
From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize in 1993, comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that woul ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Category: Biography
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 against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Category: Biography
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 against him From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a s ...Show more
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
Category: Non-Fiction
Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imagination. Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our soci ...Show more
Languages of Truth - Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
Category: Reference
From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture. 'One of the greatest writers of our age' Neil Gaiman Across a wide variety of sub ...Show more
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
Category: Fiction
A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINE From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey ...Show more
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
Category: Fiction
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on ...Show more
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
Category: Children's Fiction
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on ...Show more
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by RUSHDIE, SALMAN
Category: Classics
This title includes a reading guide. 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 for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom a ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted. Often hailed as a classic of magic realism, this is a many-layered and entralling narrative in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characte ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Category: Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947--and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
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 for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextr ...Show more