Salman Rushdie

10 books. "Once upon a time, in a world just like ours, there came "the time of the strangenesses." Reason receded and the loudest, most illiberal voices reigned. A simple gardener began to levitate, and a powerful djinn -- also known as the Princess of Fairyland -- raised an army composed entirely of her semi-magical great-great-great-grandchildren. A baby was born with the ability to see corruption in the faces of others. The ghosts of two philosophers,...

"When the aristocratic Golden family moves into a self contained pocket of New York City, a park in Greenwich Village called "The Gardens," their past is an absolute mystery. They seem to be hiding in plain sight: Nero Golden, the powerful but shady patriarch, and his sons Petya, a high functioning autistic and recluse; Apu, the successful artist who may or may not be profound; and D, the enchanting youngest son whose gender confusion mirrors the...

On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a call from a journalist informing him that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? Writing a novel, The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran." So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground for more than nine years, moving from house to house, with...

"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...

Los Angeles, 1991. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is murdered in broad daylight on his illegitimate daughter India's doorstep, slaughtered by a knife wielded by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown. The dead man is a charismatic World War Two Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability, a former US ambassador to India and subsequently America's counter-terrorism...

Nine short stories reveal the vast distance and intimacy that exist between East and West, as well as the complex misunderstandings that both bind and separate them.

Roman "Deti polunochi" trizhdy poluchal premiyu "Buker": v 1981 godu kak luchshiy roman, v 1993 i 2008 godah - k 25‑y i 40‑y godovschine premii kak luchshee proizvedenie iz vseh, ee poluchivshih. Eto roman-allegoriya, rasskaz ob obretshey nezavisimost Indii i o pokolenii, kotoroe rodilos uzhe v svobodnoy strane. Eto i mif, i pritcha, i fantasmagoriya, gde perepleteny tragicheskoe i komicheskoe, satira i pafos, avantyura i drama, mnogoplanovoe...

Kniga "Vostok, Zapad" predstavlyaet soboy sbornik korotkih rasskazov, povestvuyuschih o vostochnoy i zapadnoy tsivilizatsiyah, ob ih stremleniyah i slozhnostyah, o neudachah globalizatsii i o lyudyah, stoyaschih pered neprostym vyborom. Rasskazy v toy ili inoy stepeni otrazhayut opyt samogo Rushdi, ego zhizni v Indii i immigrantskih budney v Velikobritanii. Vse tri razdela knigi - "Vostok", "Zapad" i "Vostok, Zapad" - pronizany obschimi temami: vynuzhdennoe...

In una notte stellata, nella città di Kahani, il famoso narratore Rashid cade in un sonno profondissimo. Niente sembra in grado di risvegliarlo. Per scongiurare l'incantesimo, il figlio dodicenne Luka deve intraprendere un lungo viaggio nel cuore del Mondo Magico dove si nasconde il Fuoco della vita, che nessuno ha mai osato sottrarre. Un viaggio pericoloso e pieno di ostacoli, durante il quale Luka incontrerà amici fedeli e diabolici nemici, e...