Salman Rushdie

• Jan-1975
• / General Fiction
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“A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present-day . . . Thunderous and touching.”�"Financial TimesAfter drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the nex...

• Mar-1981
• / Magical Realism
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The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist -- one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON ...

• Oct-1983
• / General Fiction
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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�...

• Mar-1987
• / General Fiction
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“I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice.” So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginat...

• Sep-1988
• / General Fiction
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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.” ...

• Apr-1990
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-1990
• / General Fiction
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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 bac...

• May-1992
• / General Fiction
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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, ...

• 1995
• / General Fiction
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From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this bo...

• Sep-1995
• / General Fiction
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What do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems, it political forms - crumble? The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family, finds himself in such a moment...

• Aug-1997
• / Literary
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• Apr-1999
• / General Fiction
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A mythic tale of love, celebrity, and seismic events -- all set to a rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack: “This is Rushdie at his absolute, almost insolently global best” (Toni Morrison).When the famous singer Vina Apsara is caught in a devastating eart...

• Nov-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2001
• / General Fiction
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"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-destr...

• Sep-2002
• / General Fiction
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From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction’s most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Ru...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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“Dazzling . . . Modern thriller, Ramayan epic, courtroom drama, slapstick comedy, wartime adventure, political satire, village legend -- they’re all blended here magnificently.” -- The Washington Post Book World “Absorbing . . . Everywhere [...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital, a tale ...

• Nov-2010
• / Literary
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With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haro...

• Aug-2013
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2015
• / Fantasy
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From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, "Two ...

• Apr-2016
• / General Fiction
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"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
are of imagination all compact."- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s DreamTo commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, And Other Stories and Hay F...

• May-2016
• / General Fiction
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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 ...

• Jun-2017
• / General Fiction
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Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what i...

• Sep-2017
• / Literary
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A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture -- a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic...

• Sep-2019
• / Literary
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Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte ...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-2023
• / Literary
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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 RushdieIn the wake of an i...