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.
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 forc...
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.
These essays on places, politics, films and assassinations cover only a ten year period and yet they seem to focus an inordinate amount of intelligenc...
On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence. This book offers an account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade.
On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a lea...
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself handcuffed to history by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent. This is a family saga set against the background of the India of the 20th century.
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself handcuffed to history by the coincidence. He is one of 1,00...
Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true? I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can't tell stories anymore. That means no more laughter in the city of Alifbay and now the place stinks of sadness. So it's up to me to put things right.
Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true? I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can't tell stories anymor...
What do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems - crumble? The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family, finds himself in such a moment of crisis. His mother, an emotional despot, worships beauty, but Moor is ugly, he has a deformed hand.
What do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems - crumble? The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only s...
Flapping Eagle is a young Indian given the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. Tiring of the burden of immortal life, he sets off to find the mystical Calf Island, where he can rejoin the human race.
Flapping Eagle is a young Indian given the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. Tiring of the burden of immortal life, he sets off to fin...
This is the story of Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, who disappears during a devastating earthquake. It also tells of her lover, Ormus Cama, and his own extraordinary life in music.
This is the story of Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, who disappears during a devastating earthquake. It also tells of her lover, Ormus Ca...
Haroun's father is the greatest storyteller. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie bird to the Sea of Stories - and an adventure begins.
Haroun's father is the greatest storyteller. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his f...
