Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of Home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whet
Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children wh
On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a call from a journalist informing him that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa
One 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 both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times.
Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s
In Salmon Rushdie: A Deleuzian Reading, the author analyses five of Rushdie's novels, Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Claiming an intellectual k
Salem's Critical Insights series distills the best of both classic and current literary criticism of the world's most-studied literature. The series focuses on an individual author's entire body of wo
Salman Rushdie is one of the most widely discussed but also one of the most generally misunderstood of contemporary writers. This study provides a view by approaching Rushdie's fiction in terms of its
Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight’s Children, is regularly cited as the ‘Booker of Bookers’ and its impact is still being felt t
"If there's an attempt to silence a writer, the best thing a writer can do is not be silenced. If somebody is trying to stifle your voice, you should try and make sure it speaks louder than before."
This updated and expanded new edition reviews Rushdie's novels in the light of recent critical developments. It also features three new chapters which examine the author's latest works The Ground Bene
"This updated and expanded new edition reviews Rushdie's novels in the light of recent critical developments. It also features three new chapters which examine the author's latest works The Ground Ben
Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most important writers of politicized fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of extraord
1. Midnight's Children is clearly a work of fiction; yet, like many modern novels, it is presented as an autobiography. How can we tell it isn't? What literary devices are employed to make its fiction
