Salman Rushdie, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-75789-4
Rushdie's collection of nine highly postmodern stories probes the differences and connections between East and West, celebrating the hybrid nature of contemporary identity. (Jan.)
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Salman Rushdie. Random House, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-73024-9
Rushdie follows Victory City with a forceful and surprisingly good-humored account of the 2022 knife attack that nearly killed him. At a speaking engagement in Chautaqua, N.Y., a 24-year-old man Rushdie refers to only as “A” rushed the stage where...
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Salman Rushdie. Random, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9891-7
In his latest novel, Rushdie (Joseph Anton) invents his own cultural narrative—one that blends elements of One Thousand and One Nights, Homeric epics, and sci-fi and action/adventure comic books. The title is a reference to the magical stretch of...
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Salman Rushdie. Random House, $30 (646p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9278-6
Hailed as a literary martyr and derided as a prima donna, Rushdie emerges as both inspiring and insufferable in this memoir of his life following the 1989 fatwa issued against him by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini. The British-Indian novelist's third-pers
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Salman Rushdie, Author Pantheon Books $21 (214p) ISBN 978-0-679-43965-3
``I... have ropes around my neck... pulling me East and West,'' says the narrator of one of the nine haunting stories in this collection by the author of The Satanic Verses. In three tales set in India (``East'') Rushdie surveys his native culture...
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Salman Rushdie, Author Viking Books $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-83952-0
Rushdie calls his controversial novel The Satanic Verses ""a migrant's-eye view of the world,"" and indeed the theme of cultural transplantation informs many of the 75 essays and reviews gathered in this impressive collection. Whether he is...
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Salman Rushdie, Author Penguin Books $12 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-014731-5
When Flapping Eagle, the immortal hero of this fantasy, tires of existence, he travels to Calf Island, home of Grimus, the man who granted him eternal life, and shakes things up a bit. In its 1979 review, PW termed this an ``artful first novel. . . .
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Salman Rushdie, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-010926-9
Bombay-born novelist Rushdie (Midnight's Children) visited Nicaragua in 1986 and here writes of poetry recitals, political rallies, meetings with peasants, soldiers and members of the opposition. PW noted that Rushdie believes the Sandinistas have...
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Salman Rushdie, Author Viking Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-83804-2
Following the unprecedented controversy generated by The Satanic Verses , Rushdie offers as eloquent a defense of art as any Renaissance treatise. Supposedly begun as a bedtime story for Rushdie's son, Haroun concerns a supremely talented...
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Salman Rushdie, Author Vintage Books USA $16 (448p) ISBN 978-0-679-74466-5
This saga of a family whose history is interwoven with that of modern India, Rushdie's first adult novel in seven years, won England's 1995 Whitbread award. (Jan.)
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Salman Rushdie, Author . Random $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-46333-7
The sea change has invigorated Rushdie. His new novel is very much an American book, a bitingly satiric, often wildly farcical picture of American society in the first years of the 21st century. The twice transplanted protagonist (Bombay born,...
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Salman Rushdie, Author Penguin Books $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-015737-6
In a contemporary fable filled with riotous verbal pranks, Haroun, who unintentionally stopped time when he froze his father's esteemed storytelling ability, seeks to undo his error on a quest through a magical realm. ``As eloquent a defense of art...
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Salman Rushdie, Author Viking Books $27.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-670-82537-0
Banned in India before publication, this immense novel by Booker Prize-winner Rushdie ( Midnight's Children ) pits Good against Evil in a whimsical and fantastic tale. Two actors from India, ``prancing'' Gibreel Farishta and ``buttony, pursed''...
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Salman Rushdie, Random, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-46336-8
Rushdie unleashes his imagination on an alternate world informed by the surreal logic of video games, but the author's entertaining wordplay and lighter-than-air fantasies don't amount to more than a clever pastiche. A sequel of sorts to Haroun and...
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Salman Rushdie, Author Henry Holt & Co Inc $27.5 (575p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5308-1
Time and space, understood conventionally, have never been enough for Rushdie's antic imagination, and here he needs two parallel universes to contain this playful, highly allusive journey through the last 40 years of pop culture. Ormus Cama, a...
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Salman Rushdie, Author Pantheon Books $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42049-1
Not since Midnight's Children has Rushdie produced such a dazzling novel. Nor has he curbed his urgent indignation or muffled his satiric tongue. In a spirited story related at a breakneck pace and crammed full of melodrama, slapstick, supple...
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Salman Rushdie, Author . Random $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-50433-4
Renaissance Florence’s artistic zenith and Mughal India’s cultural summit—reached the following century, at Emperor Akbar’s court in Sikri—are the twin beacons of Rushdie’s ingenious latest, a dense but sparkling...
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Salman Rushdie, Author . Random $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-46335-1
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The focus of this novel is extremism. It tells the tale of two Kashmiri villages whose inhabitants gradually get caught up in communal violence. As we know from Yugoslavia, hatred takes on especially...
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Salman Rushdie, Author . Random $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-46334-4
Roughly one-fourth of these essays deals with the response of the media, various governments and Rushdie himself to what he calls the "unfunny Valentine" he received on February 14, 1989, from the Ayatollah Khomeini: the fatwa calling for...
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Salman Rushdie, read by Sam Dastor. Random House Audio, unabridged, 22 CDs, 26.5 hrs., $60 ISBN 978-0-449-80781-1
After a fatwa ordering his death was issued by Ayatollah Khomeini on Valentine’s Day in 1989, brilliant novelist Rushdie opted to take the first names of his two favorite writers and combine them into a pseudonym, in order to protect his identity....
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Salman Rushdie, Author, Firdous Bamji, Narrated by , read by Firdous Bamji. Recorded Books $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4361-4870-2
Listeners who can make sense out of this clear but unengaging readingshould win an award. Firdous Bamji employs the same technique throughout (pushing out chosen words in each phrase for emphasis), and the sentences begin to sound alike and the...
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Salman Rushdie, Author, Aasif Mandvi, Narrated by , read by Aasif Mandvi. Recorded Books $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4193-3999-8
For Westerners, Rushdie's latest may be better heard than read. While readers might stumble over the Kashmiri, Indian and Pakistani names and accents, Mandvi glides right through them, allowing us to engage with Rushdie's well-wrought...
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Salman Rushdie, Author, Anouar Abdallah, Author George Braziller $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1354-2
The 91 Arab and Muslim writers in this collection have labelled Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses absurdly brilliant, ponderously dull and extremely offensive, sometimes all in the same essay. Many of these commentators have never even read the...
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Salman Rushdie, Author, Melvyn Bragg, Editor, Richard Maltby, Editor British Film Institute $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-85170-300-8
This is one of the first in a new series of monographs pairing writers and film scholars with a film of their own choosing from the BFI archives. At first glance, the controversial author of The Satanic Verses might seem an odd pairing with the MGM...
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Salman Rushdie. Random House, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-59280-5
In Rushdie’s ambitious and rewarding novel, a mysterious billionaire and his three adult sons change their names and move to New York City in an attempt to reinvent themselves after tragedy. Spanning the years from the Obama inauguration to the...
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Salman Rushdie. Random House, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-13298-2
Rushdie’s rambunctious latest (following The Golden House) hurtles through surreal time and space with the author’s retooled Don Quixote on a quest for love and redemption in an unloving and irredeemable U.S.A. In this story within a story, Sam...
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Salman Rushdie. Random House, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-59313-317-0
“Before there were books, there were stories,” writes Rushdie (Quichotte) in this mesmerizing collection. In the first of four sections, Rushdie explores how the “stories we fall in love with make us who we are”: “Wonder Tales” sees him praising...
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Salman Rushdie. Random House, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-24339-8
Rushdie (Midnight’s Children) conjures a rich if undercooked story of a doomed empire and its creator, a woman who lived to be 247. A Sanskrit manuscript is found buried in a clay pot in present-day southern India. On it is a narrative poem by Pampa
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Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Avid Reader, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9040-7
Husband and wife Chabon (Moonglow) and Waldman (A Really Good Day) gather dozens of prominent writers to commemorate the ACLU’s centennial with powerful, inspiring essays on the legal organization’s milestone cases. Addressing City of Chicago v....
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