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80 reviews
SALMAN RUSHDIE

VINTAGE, 1996

Wonderful book
One of the best books I've ever read, if not the best of them. Salman Rushdie at his best!

Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

5 reviews

Steidl, 2007

Taryn Simon Is Artistically All Over The Map, But This Book Confirms Her Status As One Of Our Most Important Photographers
Having seen the small exhibition at the Whitney Museum devoted to this body of work (It's currently on view there until early June.), I strongly believe that this book confirms what many people - myself included - have thought of fellow Brunonian Taryn Simon's work ever since she made her spectacular debut with "The Innocents" a few years ago. "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar" ...

Shame: A Novel

24 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Picador, 2000

Another inexorable dance between fiction and reality...
This, Rushdie's third novel, explores the universal theme of shame in the context of an - somewhat imaginary but simultaneously all too real - Islamic society. The characters swim up to their necks in the stuff. From the three sisters, Chhunni, Munnee, and Bunny (who remain locked up in "Nishapur" with their deadly dumbwaiter), who think more of their inheritance than their father's death to the ...

The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

111 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Picador, 2000

For crying out India
Michael Pakenham of the Baltimore Sun is quoted on the back cover of the copy I bought of this book by saying, 'It's the best thing ever written about rock and roll. It is rock and roll ..' One question: How much did this guy get paid to say that. Multiple too many times, now, I've been steered totally wrong from critics who are joltingly convinced of how good a piece of art/entertainment ...

The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel

7 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Random House, 2008

Dazzling!
When I read, I fervently hope to be overcome with thought, beauty, history and by the power of an writer's words. In short, all I ask is . . . beloved author, dazzle me! Salman Rushdie has dazzled promiscuously with this, his exalted, effete, and gorgeous new work, "The Enchantress of Florence." The last time I was similarly stupefied by sheer talent, veracity and yes, beauty was when I ...

Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Faber Plays)

111 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Faber & Faber, 1999

Nice Story, Well written
I have been reading Sulman Rushdie for a while and I can see what makes him so great. His interest in giving out details makes this book and any of his other book an interesting reading.

The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)

215 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Picador, 2000

The Satanic Verses Through Western Eyes
I was a kid when the controversy around this book hit, and I guess for that reason I always thought it was a very heavy, tedious, high-brow work. In fact, "The Satanic Verses" is a fun and funny narrative. The style reminded me of Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- the lines between the supernatural and the mundane are erased. For Western readers who do not know as much about Islam as they might like ...

Shalimar the Clown ; A Novel

64 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Random House Group, 2005

No Clown
As it turned out, Shalimar was anything but a clown. True, as a young man he was well known for his antics on the high wire that were so funny that they made everyone forget just how dangerous they were. But when he and fellow Kashmiri Boonyi Kaul were just fourteen years old, they fell in love and Shalimar's life was changed forever. The two married soon after and settled into a life in rural ...

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple ...

179 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Modern Library, 2003

WHAT A RUSH(DIE)!
If this book was described by 1001 readers, I think you'd get 10,001 different views of what they experienced. Some knowledge of the history of India & Pakistan before and after independence and the partition will be helpful. Perhaps some "-ism" (magical real(ism), coming-of-age(ism); post-modern(ism); stream of .....) reading would prepare you for this. But neither is required to enjoy it. ...

East, West: Stories

20 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Vintage, 1995

Rushdie a master of the short story form
The stories in this collection present lighter reading than Rushdie's mammoth novels such as Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses but they display just as many of his lavish, elegant and rich prose writing talents. The stories focus on various cultural aspects of Western and Eastern societies - the lifestyles, events, stereotypes and prejudices that affect people in these areas, especially ...

Imaginary Homelands

8 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992

Ten years bookended by euphoria and exile...
"Imaginary Homelands" encapsulates some of Salman Rushdie's most potent literary "passing overs." 1981, when this collection of essays and reviews begins, witnessed the publication of Rushdie's second novel, "Midnight's Children." Unlike its stillborn predecessor, "Grimus," this thick, billowing and poignant book made his name. From advertising copywriter, to near poverty, to the Man Booker ...

The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie

Jonathan Cape, 1995

Fury: A Novel (Modern Library)

68 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002

Brilliantly Unleashes the Greek Furies on Modern America
Furious. The word means extremely angry or violent, but it can also mean anything involving violence, anger, or speed (such as "Fists of Fury" and the absurd "The Fast and the Furious"). Its roots reach back to Greek mythology, to the three snake-haired, bat-winged, and dog-faced goddesses Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera. These three horrible deities were the vengeful hands of the gods, punishing ...

Novels II of Samuel Beckett: Volume II of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove ...
Samuel Beckett

Grove Press, 2006

Edited by Paul Auster, this four–volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes have been specially bound with covers featuring images central to Beckett's works. Typographical errors that remained uncorrected in the various prior editions have now been corrected in consultation with Beckett scholars C. J. Ackerley and S. E. ...

Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 (Modern Library Paperbacks)

15 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Modern Library, 2003

Formidable intellectual firepower
This collection of Salman Rushdie's non-fiction spanning the early years of the Iranian Fatwa to the immediate post September 11th aftermath displays all the characteristic intellectual pyrotechnics that Rushdie is famous for. There is much in this book for readers who engage with global culture and politics to enjoy. The first essay is an extended piece of film criticism on Rushdie's first ...

Grimus

14 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Overlook Hardcover, 1979

An enchanting work by the greatest writer alive!
An enchanting work by the greatest writer alive!

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

13 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Picador, 2003

A Rich, Fascinating Journey.
"The Jaguar Smile" chronicles Salman Rushdie's trip through Nicaragua during the Sandinista years and U.S./Contra war against the revolutionary government. This is a work by Rushdie that has been somewhat forgotten under all the publicity of his later scandal involving "The Satanic Verses" and recent works like "Shalimar The Clown," but it is a book worth re-discovering as it shows Rushdie going ...

The Best American Short Stories 2008 (The Best American Series)

Houghton Mifflin, 2008

This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificent array" (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect" (Publishers Weekly). Contributors include T. C. Boyle, Allegra Goodman, Nicole Krauss, Steven Millhauser, Jonathan ...

Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie

Vintage Classics, 2008

'India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker

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