Jan 30, 2024 · The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie.

Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels, a Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, and won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice)...

Oct 24, 2014 · Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years Eight Months and ...

Selected by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West, these novel excerpts, stories, and memoirs illuminate wonderful writing by authors often overlooked in the West. Thirty-two selections by Indian authors writing in English over the past half-century.

Jun 13, 2005 · One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight.

Jun 12, 2022 · Enlivened on every page by Rushdie’s signature wit and dazzling voice, Languages of Truth offers the author’s most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us on an exhilarating tour of his own exuberant and fearless imagination.

The Wizard of Oz ‘was my very first literary influence,’ writes Salman Rushdie in his account of the great MGM children’s classic. At the age of ten he had written a story, ‘Over the Rainbow’, about a colorful fantasy world.

Jan 27, 2025 · After recovering from a vicious attack that nearly took his life, Salman Rushdie published a powerful memoir, Knife, documenting the day of the attack, the process of recovery and his steadfast belief in the power of love and the written word. Here are a collection of interviews he participated in following its release.

Jan 31, 2025 · “Victory City” invokes the Ramayana, but Rushdie has a more immediate precursor in mind, and the tale of his own vanished city comes loaded with allusions to Italo Calvino’s ever-marvelous “Invisible Cities,” in which all places are but …

“Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance.” –The Washington Post Book World “Pure story–an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of …