Salman Rushdie: 61 books

Historia del viaje que el autor, Salman Rushdie, realizó en 1986 a un país en revolución, Nicaragua. Rushdie viajó a Nicaragua en 1986, en plena revolución sandinista, sin ideas preconcebidas de lo que se iba a encontrar. Lo que descubrió le impresionó sobremanera: una cultura de héroes...

Die Phantasie ist überall dort zu Hause, wo Geschichten erzählt werden. »Heimatländer der Phantasie« ist eine Sammlung von Essays, Rezensionen und Glossen, die Salman Rushdie in den Jahren 1982 bis 1991 für bedeutende Zeitungen und Zeitschriften verfasst hat. Neben politischen und gesellschaftlichen...

In Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie presents ten years’ worth of concentrated thought on topics from the most cherished literary traditions and authors of India, Europe, and America to the politics of oppression, the joy of film and television, and the enduring value of the imagination. Writing...

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...

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasures, Hashim lives a life of gentle honor until he discovers, washed up to his private quay, a great relic: a silver pendant bearing a strand of the Prophet’s hair.   From one of the most controversial...

Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story. Max Ophuls’ memorablelife ends violently in Los Angeles...

Entreverando la Historia con la ficción, Salman Rushdie reconstruye un apasionante periodo histórico que narra la formación del imperio Mongol y las luchas que finalmente darían lugar a la India. A finales del siglo xvi, un extranjero llega a la corte de Akbar el Grande, emperador del Imperio...

Nueve relatos en los que Salman Rushdie despliega magistralmente los principales temas y elementos de su universo literario. Rushdie despliega magistralmente en Oriente, Occidente los motivos principales de su universo literario. Desde un prestamista que consigue un pelo de la barba del Profeta...

»Als ich nach Nicaragua fuhr, hatte ich nicht die Absicht, ein Buch darüber zu schreiben oder überhaupt zu schreiben; doch die Begegnung mit dem Land hat mich so tief bewegt, dass mir keine andere Wahl blieb.« Als Salman Rushdie 1986 nach Nicaragua reist, ist er überwältigt: von den Menschen...

Nascido precisamente ao bater da meia-noite, no exato momento em que a Índia se tornava independente, Saleem Sinai é uma criança especial. No entanto, esta simultaneidade de nascimento tem consequências para as quais ele não está preparado: poderes telepáticos ligam-no a outros 1000 «filhos da...

Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and...

"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...

When Haroun Khalifa’s father, the renowned storyteller Rashid Khalifa, loses his gift of gab, Haroun knows he has to help. Soon, he’s tumbled headfirst into an adventure story of his own, journeying toward the legendary Sea of Stories on the back of a flying Hoopoe bird. There, he finds a host...

“A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present-day . . . Thunderous and touching.” –Financial Times After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas...