CategoryBiography & AutobiographyTitleConversations With SalmanRushdie(More Info)ISBN1578061857Author(s)Rushdie, SalmanSummary
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Conversations With SalmanRushdie by Rushdie, Salman / King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Introducer) / Williams, Juan (Afterword) / Reder, Michael R. (Edt) / Reder, Michael Acclaim, success, and controversy follow every one of SalmanRushdie's writings. His novels and stories have won him awards and made him both famous in the literary world and a catalyst for protests worldwide. For nearly a decade after publication of The Satanic Verses, he faced a bounty on his life. Although Rushdie has participated in a great number of interviews, many of his most revealing conversations were published in journals and newspapers throughout the globe-not only in England and the United States, but also in India, Canada, and across Europe. Conversations with SalmanRushdie, the first collection of interviews with Rushdie, brings together the best and some of the rarest of the interviews the author has granted. Though many know Rushdie for his novels, what most do not realize is the breadth of Rushdie's writing and thinking. There are many other Salman Rushdies-the travel writer, the crafter of short stories, the filmmaker, the "children's" story writer, the essayist and critic, and the unflinching commentator on contemporary culture, particularly on race and inequality. "The speaking of suppressed truths is one of the great possibilities of the novel", he tells the Third World Book Review", and it is perhaps the main reason why the novel becomes the most dangerous of art forms in all countries where people, governments, are trying to distort the truth". Rushdie talks extensively about the creative process, about his views on art and politics, and about his life before and after the fatwa. Articulate, witty, and learned, he shows the side of himself that sparks such controversy. While not necessarily seeking to provoke, Rushdie shows how controversy is ofteninseparable from the politically charged situations and issues that compel him to write. Rushdie takes risks in his writing, pushing both the novelistic form and language to its limits. "Dispense with safety nets", he says in Imaginary Homelands. These interviews reveal a man with a powerful mind, a wry sense of humor, and an unshakable commitment to justice
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Category LiteratureTitleSalmanRushdie's Midnight's Children(More Info)ISBNAuthor(s)Mitra, ReenaSummarySalmanRushdie's Midnight's Children, ever since its publication in 1980, has bee...
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SalmanRushdie's Midnight's Children, ever since its publication in 1980, has been considered an ingenious piece of literary art and a trendsetter in the field of Indian fiction in English. The stupendous success of this novel broke all previous records and Rushdie was hailed as one who engendered a whole new generation of fiction writers that embraced magical realism as a mode for the depiction of history. The variant mode of the portrayal of historical reality that Rushdie adopts in Midnights Children is characteristically his own and his fantasizing of facts in this novel inspired a host of other writers to offer, in their respective works, their own blends of fact and fiction. Midnight's Children is a multifaceted novel which lends itself to analysis from various angles and perspectives. Be it from the point of view of structure of content, the work yields a richness that has been variously explored by the scholars who have contributed to this anthology of essays
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CategoryFamily & RelationshipsTitleSalman Rushdies Midnights Children(More Info)ISBN0812969030Author(s)SalmanRushdie,simon Reade,tim SuppleSummary
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CategoryTitleMore(More Info)ISBN9780224061Author(s)SalmanRushdieSummary
The Enchantress of florence by SalmanRushdie A tall, yellow-haired young Europea...
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The Enchantress of florence by SalmanRushdie A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara K”z, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbek warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, and much trouble ensues.The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia's boyhood friend "il Machia" - Niccol• Machiavelli - is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both.But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he's a liar, must he die
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CategoryFictionTitleThe Ground Beneath Her Feet(More Info)ISBN0099766019Author(s)SalmanRushdieSummary
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CategoryFictionTitleGrimus(More Info)ISBN0099592711Author(s)SalmanRushdieSummary
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CategoryFictionTitleEast, West(More Info)ISBN0099533014Author(s)SalmanRushdieSummary
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CategoryFictionTitleFury(More Info)ISBN0099443384Author(s)SalmanRushdieSummary
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