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Salman Rushdie

Born

in Bombay, Bombay presidency, British 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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The Satanic Verses (1988), novel of Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie led Ruholla Khomeini, the ayatollah of Iran, to demand his execution and then forced him into hiding; his other works include Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker prize, and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995).

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, a novelist and essayist, set much of his early fiction 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 led to some violent protests from Muslims in several countries. Faced with death threats and a fatwa (religious edic ...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: 3.82 · 372,971 ratings · 31,781 reviews · 183 distinct works • Similar authors

	Midnight's Children 3.98 avg rating — 118,675 ratings — published 1981 — 243 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 3.71 avg rating — 62,670 ratings — published 1988 — 209 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), Paul Brickbeck (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 33,563 ratings — published 1990 — 152 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 — 18,239 ratings — published 2008 — 102 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 — 13,926 ratings — published 2005 — 92 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 — 13,645 ratings — published 1995 — 121 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 — 11,899 ratings — published 1983 — 111 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 — 11,564 ratings — published 1999 — 108 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 — 12,858 ratings — published 2015 — 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 Golden House 3.67 avg rating — 9,536 ratings — published 2017 — 72 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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December 3018 New School Poll

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - 304 pages, 1969

101 votes, 34.2%

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

70 votes, 23.7%

A Separate Peace by John Knowles, 208 pages, 1959

50 votes, 16.9%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 504 pages, 1940

38 votes, 12.9%

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead, 225 pages, 1999

36 votes, 12.2%

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