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Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie

Joseph Anton A Memoir
Written by Salman RushdieUnabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Literary | $27.50 | 978-0-449-80782-8 (0-449-80782-7)

Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie

Joseph Anton A Memoir
Written by Salman RushdieUnabridged Compact Disc | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Literary | $50.00 | 978-0-449-80781-1 (0-449-80781-9)

Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie

Joseph Anton A Memoir
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 656 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Literary | $ | 978-0-679-64388-3 (0-679-64388-5)

Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie

Joseph Anton A Memoir
Written by Salman RushdieHardcover, 656 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Literary | $30.00 | 978-0-8129-9278-6 (0-8129-9278-4)

The Remains of the Day by Salman Rushdie

The Remains of the Day
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Introduction by Salman RushdieHardcover, 288 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Literary | $24.95 | 978-0-307-96144-0 (0-307-96144-3)

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman.” But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness” and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. 

A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

Untitled memoir by Salman Rushdie

Untitled memoir
Written by Salman RushdieeBook | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary | $ | 978-0-307-40138-0 (0-307-40138-3)

Untitled memoir by Salman Rushdie

Untitled memoir
Written by Salman RushdieHardcover, 384 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary | $0.00 | 978-0-307-40136-6 (0-307-40136-7)

Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie

Luka and the Fire of Life A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieTrade Paperback, 240 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction - Literary | $15.00 | 978-0-679-78347-3 (0-679-78347-4)

With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories. This breathtaking new novel centers on Luka, Haroun’s younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom.

For Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has fallen into deep sleep from which no one can wake him. To keep his father from slipping away entirely, Luka must travel to the Magic World and steal the ever-burning Fire of Life. Thus begins a quest replete with unlikely creatures, strange alliances, and seemingly insurmountable challenges as Luka and an assortment of enchanted companions race through peril after peril, pass through the land of the Badly Behaved Gods, and reach the Fire itself, where Luka’s fate, and that of his father, will be decided.

Filled with mischievous wordplay and delving into themes as universal as the power of filial love and the meaning of mortality, Luka and the Fire of Life is a book of wonders for all ages.


From the Hardcover edition.

Shame by Salman Rushdie

Shame A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 320 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction - Literary | $15.00 | 978-0-307-78664-7 (0-307-78664-1)

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is "not quite Pakistan." In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men–one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure–Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation–"shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence." Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 576 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction - Literary | $16.00 | 978-0-307-78665-4 (0-307-78665-X)

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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.