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Salman Rushdie

Born

in Bombay, India

June 19, 1947

Website

https://www.salmanrushdie.com/

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Genre

Fiction, Children's, Memoir

Influences

Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Chekov, Joseph Conrad, Scheherazad ...more

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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a novelist and essayist. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.

His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to protests from Muslims in several countries, some of which were violent. Faced with death threats and a fatwa (religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public only sporadically. In June 2007, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor for "services to litera ...more

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What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now

Salman Rushdie for The New Yorker

Page-Turner, June 13, 2019

Photograph by Santi Visalli / Getty

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” is humane enough to allow, at the end of the horror that is its subject, for the possibility of hope.

I first read “Slaughterhouse-Five” in 1972, three years after it was published and three years before I published my own first novel. I was twenty-five years o

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Average rating: 3.83 · 387,192 ratings · 31,868 reviews · 143 distinct works • Similar authors

	Midnight's Children 3.98 avg rating — 117,729 ratings — published 1981 — 211 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satanic Verses 3.70 avg rating — 62,053 ratings — published 1988 — 187 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1) by Salman Rushdie, Paul Birkbeck (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 33,301 ratings — published 1990 — 137 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Enchantress of Florence 3.60 avg rating — 18,170 ratings — published 2008 — 104 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shalimar the Clown 3.90 avg rating — 13,864 ratings — published 2005 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moor's Last Sigh 3.93 avg rating — 13,567 ratings — published 1995 — 124 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shame 3.86 avg rating — 11,815 ratings — published 1983 — 101 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ground Beneath Her Feet 3.80 avg rating — 11,523 ratings — published 1999 — 104 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights 3.38 avg rating — 12,764 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden House 3.67 avg rating — 9,413 ratings — published 2017 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Which book would you like to read for our December 2014 New School Classics group read?

1963, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 288 pages

33 votes, 20.8%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

19 votes, 11.9%

1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages

16 votes, 10.1%

1902, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, 224 pages

15 votes, 9.4%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages

14 votes, 8.8%

1944, The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, 314 pages

13 votes, 8.2%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages

12 votes, 7.5%

1940, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages

12 votes, 7.5%

1918, My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 232 pages

11 votes, 6.9%

1990, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, 413 pages

10 votes, 6.3%

1940, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 320 pages

2 votes, 1.3%

1961, A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul, 623 pages

1 vote, 0.6%

1992, Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth, 630 pages

1 vote, 0.6%

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