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The Enchantress of Florence

Salman Rushdie

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Verguenza/ Embarrassment

Salman Rushdie

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Oriente, Occidente/ East, West

Salman Rushdie

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La Sonrisa del Jaguar/ The Smile of the Jaguar

Salman Rushdie

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Adhi Rata Ki Santanem

Salman Rushdie; Priyadarsana

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Pasate De La Raya, Articulos 1992-2002

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie; Simon Reade; Tim Supple

The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.

In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight’s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family--who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth.

An allegory of modern India, Midnight’s Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country’s independence--the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history.

In collaboration with Simon Reade, Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society, Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage.

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Grimus

Salman Rushdie

After drinking an elixir that bestows him with immortality, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next 700 years sailing the seas with the burden of living forever. Eventually he grows weary of the sameness of life and journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis and he sets out to scale the island’s peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits. Through a series of thrilling quests and encounters, Flapping Eagle comes face to face with the island’s creator and unwinds the mysteries of his own humanity.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1991, Softcover - 1982, Hardcover - 1982, Hardcover - 1979, 1975

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The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie; Salman Rudhdie

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two men-Gibreel Farishta, the biggest movie star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years-plummet from the sky. Washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, they proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations.

The Satanic Verses is a wonderfully erudite study of the evil and good entwined within the hearts of women and men, an epic journey of tears and laughter, served up by a writer at the height of his powers.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003, Hardcover - 1999, Softcover - 1997, Softcover - 1992, Hardcover - 1989

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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

Salman Rushdie

For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.

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Furia/ Fury

Salman Rushdie

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002

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Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

The author of The Stananic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction".--The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002, Softcover - 2000, Hardcover - 1981

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Fury: A Novel

Salman Rushdie

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world-famous dollmaker, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York. There's a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America's wealth and power, seeking to "erase" himself. But fury is all around him.

Fury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force. It is also an astonishing portrait of New York. Not since the Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel.

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Other editions: 2001, Hardcover - 2001

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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

Salman Rushdie

“Step Across This Line is a moral tonic ... A book about freedom, its glories and its costs.” -- The Globe and Mail

“A beacon of sanity… In an age of religious fanatics, patriotic zealots and self-righteous leftists, Salman Rushdie champions free thinking and fun.” -- Salon.com

“Salman Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.” -- The New York Times Book Review


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Salman Rushdie

Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music.

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Other editions: 2002, Softcover - 2000, Softcover - 2000, 1999, Hardcover - 1999, 1999

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie

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Conversations With Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie; Michael Reder; Juan (AFT) Williams

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2000

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Shame

Salman Rushdie; Salman Rudhdie

In this brilliant novel, Salman Rushdie masterfully combines history, art, language, politics, and religion. Set in a country "not quite Pakistan," the story centers around the families of two men-one a celebrated warrior, the other, a debauched playboy-engaged in a protracted duel that is played out in the political landscape of their country. Shame is a tour de force and a fitting predecessor to the author's legendary novel, The Satanic Verses.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1997, Softcover - 1989, Softcover - 1984, 1983, Hardcover - 1983

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie

Adapted for the Stage by Tim Supple and David Tushingham. Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating adaptation for the stage, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of its storytelling powers.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1991, Softcover - 1991, 1991, Hardcover - 1990

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Moor's Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie

Time Magazine's Best Book of the YearBooker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. "Fierce, phantasmagorical...a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York Times

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1998, Hardcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1996, 1996

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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

Salman Rushdie

First published in 1987, Rushdie's astonishing portrait of this tiny volcanic country shows readers the true Nicaragua never quite grasped or revealed in the headlines. Brilliant and haunting this profile of the people, politics, land, and poetry of Nicaragua fully demonstrates novelist Rushdie's prowess as a discerning political journalist.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1988, Hardcover - 1987

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Die Satanischen Verse

Salman Rushdie

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Horoun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie

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A Teacher's Window into the Child's Mind: And Papers from the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology.

Salman Rushdie; Sally Goddard

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