Salman Rushdie
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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,...
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"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...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—Newsday
Winner of the Whitbread Prize
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s...
Winner of the Whitbread Prize
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s...
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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...
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"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...
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"From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring a brutal attempt on his life, thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man wearing black clothes and a black mask rushed...
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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...
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[2019]
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xii, 396 pages ; 25 cm
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"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist...
15) Deti polunochi
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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...
16) Est, Ovest
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Salman Rushdie guarda a due mondi, l'Est e l'Ovest - due mondi che gli appartengono e di cui è a un tempo interprete e testimone - per raccontarci con gli strumenti della letteratura ciò che li unisce e li divide, la Storia in cui si trovano uniti e le incomprensioni, comiche e tragiche, che li separano. È in un movimento continuo tra il regno esotico dell'immaginario, dove l'Occidente sembra talvolta cercare la verità, il regno della modernità...
17) Vostok, Zapad
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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...
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Nella pi triste delle città, così triste da aver persino dimenticato il proprio nome, vivono il cantastorie Rashid Khalifa, lo Scià del Bla-bla, e suo figlio Harun. Rashid è dotato del magico dono di saper raccontare, incantando con la sua voce chi lo ascolta. Non appena schiude le labbra, ne sgorgano saghe piene d'amore e di magia, con eroi, battaglie, principesse...
Finché un giorno dalla bocca dello Scià del Bla-bla non esce che un orribile...
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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...
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Nell'ormai lontanissimo febbraio del 1989 l'ayatollah Khomeini emise una fatwa, una sentenza di morte, contro Rushdie per aver scritto I versi satanici, romanzo nel quale, a detta del leader iraniano, venivano offesi la religione islamica e il suo profeta.
A quasi trent'anni da quell'evento, la mattina del 12 agosto 2022, mentre si trovava sul palco del Chautauqua Institution - nello stato di New York - per tenere una conferenza, un uomo in abiti...




