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In una splendida notte stellata nella terra di Alifbay, la città di Kahani è teatro di un eveto terribile: il famoso narratore Rashid, padre del dodicenne Luka, cade inesplicabilmente in un sonno così profondo che niente sembra in grado di risvegliarlo. Per sfuggire alla funesta eventualità di perderlo per sempre, Luka deve intraprendere un lungo viaggio nel cuore del Mondo Magico dove si nasconde ciò che nessuno ha mai osato sottrarre: il Fuo...

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Salman Rushdie, Geceyarisi Cocuklarindan hemen sonra kaleme aldi Utanci. Bu iki görkemli roman daha simdiden 20. yüzyil klasikleri arasinda sayiliyor. Cok sayida dile cevrilen Utanc simdi Türkcede. Hic yabancilik cekmeyeceginiz bir ülkede, tanidik karakterler arasinda, zevkle okuyacaginizi düsünüyoruz bu romani. Politik roman diyebiliriz Utanc icin. Iktidar cilginligina kapilmis politikacilar, olgunlasmamis gördükleri toplumun vasiligine kendi...

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The disturbing tale of an English professor who finds himself in New York in the summer of 2000, in an age of unprecedented decadence. The main protagonist's inner fury at his failing marriage and his dwindling self-image is a counterpoint to the boiling anger of the city of New York at the turn of the millennium. "Thrilling writing...A simmering novel, as crammed with passion and potholes as a New York street" Boyd Tonkin, "Independent".

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Salman Rushdie, een van de grote auteurs van onze tijd, heeft een adembenemende roman geschreven, een mengeling van geschiedenis, mythologie en een tijdloos liefdesverhaal. In de nabije toekomst, nadat New York is getroffen door een zware storm, ontdekt een nuchtere hovenier dat zijn voeten de grond niet meer raken. Een stripboekschrijver wordt wakker in zijn slaapkamer en ziet een geheimzinnig wezen dat lijkt op zijn eigen creatie. Een verlei...

But after 777 years of sailing the world's seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island, a place where his fellow immortals have gathered and created their own version of the human race. But Calf Island is a strange place - like its inhabitants, it is both blessed and cursed.

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence.

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 compuls...

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El mago de Oz me convirtió en escritor, afirma Salman Rushdie en este breve y conmovedor libro. El escritor recuerda la fascinación que le causó a los diez años la clásica película infantil interpretada por Judy Garland, cuando la vio en un cine de Bombay e inmediatamente se puso a escribir un cuento sobre un niño que intenta trepar por un arco iris y se encuentra con una pianola gigante. Over the Rainbow, mecanografiado por la secretaria de s...

The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to "a glittering novelist-one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The twenty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author Saleem Sinai is born at...

A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present-day . . . Thunderous and touching.”-Financial TimesAfter drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing-and ultimately the burden-of living forever. Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mo...