Když je na prahu losangeleského domu své dcery zavražděn někdejší hrdina protinacistického odboje a velvyslanec USA v Indii Maximilian Ophuls, vše nasvědčuje politickému pozadí činu, jehož pachatelem je Ophulsův osobní řidič „klaun Šalimar“, muslimský rodák z Kašmíru. Navzdory Ophulsově významné roli v protiteroristických aktivitách americké vlády se však ukáže, že motivy vraždy jsou výhradně osobního rázu: jejich ztělesněním je čtvrtá z klíčových postav, jejíž osud, úzce spojující oba muže, je spolu s nedávnou tragickou historií...

Salman Rushdie's visit to Nicaragua in 1986 alerted the writer to a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions. The Jaguar Smile highlights the human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution.

Fury is the story of a dollmaker whose dolls run wild, of living women turned into dolls and then broken, and of a revolt on the planet's far side led by an army of living dolls.

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's new collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, the death of Princess Diana and football to 20th-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller and Arundhati Roy.

Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar, the Clown. This book presents the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter - and of a fourth character, the woman who links them all.

One night, 12-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through the Magic World to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task.

A young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell 'Amora', the Mughal of Love arrives at the court of Emperor Akbar. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar, Qara Koz, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery.

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts.

This is the first collection of stories from the Booker Prize winner. In the 9 stories Rushdie looks at what happens when East meets West, at the forces that pull his characters first in one direction, then the other.

These essays on places, politics, films and assassinations cover only a ten year period and yet they seem to focus an inordinate amount of intelligence and intellectual courage into a single volume.