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Fantasía, tradicón oral, religión, mitología, historia... El mejor Rushdie regresa con su nueva novela La encantadora de Florencia. Finales del siglo XVI. Un extranjero llega a la corte de Akbar el Grande (1519-1605), emperador del Imperio mongol, en la fastuosa ciudad de Fatehpur Sikri, en la India. Es el portador de un secreto que podrá traerle la mayor de las fortunas o costarle la vida. Un secreto digno solo de los oídos del emper...

Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen previous novels ¿ Grimus, Midnight¿s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor¿s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, and The Golden House ¿ and one collection of short stor...

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Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and indignation he carefully examines an expanse of topics, including the politics of India and Pakistan, censorship, the Labour Party, Palestinian identity, contemporary film and late-twent...

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The author of The Satanic Verses returns with his most humorous and accessible novel yet. This is the story of Haroun, a 12-year-old boy whose father Rashid is the greatest storyteller in a city so sad that it has forgotten its name. When the gift of gab suddenly deserts Rashid, Haroun sets out on an adventure to rescue his print.

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 ...

#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."-NewsdayWinner of the Whitbread PrizeOne of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with b...

This unique anthology presents thirty-two selections by Indian authors writing in English over the past half-century. Selected by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West, these novel excerpts, stories, and memoirs illuminate wonderful writing by authors often overlooked in the West. Chronologically arranged to reveal the development of Indian literature in English, this volume includes works by Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sahgal, Saadat Hasan Manto,...

A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947-and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones.

Rushdie at his most candid, impassioned, and incisive--an important and moving record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. These 75 essays demonstrate Rushdie's range and prophetic vision, as he focuses on his fellow writers, on films, and on the mine-strewn ground of race, politics and religion.

Vina Aspara, 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.

Vor dem Haus seiner unehelichen Tochter wird Maximilian Ophuls, dem ehemaligen US-Botschafter in Indien, von seinem muslimischen Chauffeur die Kehle durchgeschnitten. Was aussieht wie ein politisch motiviertes Attentat, ist ein zutiefst persönliches Drama. Dies ist die Geschichte von Max, von seinem Mörder und seiner Tochter - und von einer Frau, die am Anfang von allem steht. Die Geschichte einer tiefen Liebe, die verheerend endet. Eine Gesch...