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The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

The Moor's Last Sigh
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 448 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary | $16.00 | 978-0-307-78750-7 (0-307-78750-8)

Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year


Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.



"Fierce, phantasmagorical...a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York Times


From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie

The Jaguar Smile A Nicaraguan Journey
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 160 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Travel - Central America | $14.00 | 978-0-307-78666-1 (0-307-78666-8)

"I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice." So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the terrain, and the poetry of "a country in which the ancient, opposing forces of creation and destruction were in violent collision." Recounting his travels there in 1986, in the midst of America's behind-the-scenes war against the Sandinistas, Rushdie reveals a nation resounding to the clashes between government and individuals, history and morality.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

The Moor's Last Sigh
Written by Salman RushdieeBook | Vintage Canada | Fiction | $ | 978-0-307-36774-7 (0-307-36774-6)

In his first novel since The Satanic Verses, Rushdie gives readers a masterpiece of controlled storytelling, informed by astonishing scope and ambition, by turns compassionate, wicked, poignant, and funny. From the paradise of Aurora's legendary salon to his omnipotent father's sky-garden atop a towering glass high-rise, the Moor's story evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes in a world of possibilities embodied by India in this century.


From the Hardcover edition.

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children
Written by Salman RushdieeBook | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction - Literary | $16.00 | 978-0-307-74411-1 (0-307-74411-6)

Winner of the Booker of Bookers

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that...

Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie

Luka and the Fire of Life A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieeBook | Random House | Fiction - Literary | $25.00 | 978-0-679-60394-8 (0-679-60394-8)

“You’ve reached the age at which people in this family cross the border into the magical world. It’s your turn for an adventure—yes, it’s finally here!” So says Haroun to his younger brother, twelve-year-old Luka, in Salman Rushdie’s thrilling, delightful, lyrically crafted fable for the young and young at heart.
         
The adventure begins one...

Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie

Luka and the Fire of Life A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieHardcover, 240 pages | Random House | Fiction - Literary | $25.00 | 978-0-679-46336-8 (0-679-46336-4)

“You’ve reached the age at which people in this family cross the border into the magical world. It’s your turn for an adventure—yes, it’s finally here!” So says Haroun to his younger brother, twelve-year-old Luka, in Salman Rushdie’s thrilling, delightful, lyrically crafted fable for the young and young at heart.
         
The adventure b...

Shame by Salman Rushdie

Shame A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 320 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction - Literary | $15.00 | 978-0-307-77771-3 (0-307-77771-5)

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 | 978-0-307-77772-0 (0-307-77772-3)

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.

The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

The Moor's Last Sigh
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 448 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary | $16.00 | 978-0-307-77770-6 (0-307-77770-7)

Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year


Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.



"Fierce, phantasmagorical...a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York Times


From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie

The Jaguar Smile A Nicaraguan Journey
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 160 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Travel - Central America | $14.00 | 978-0-307-77773-7 (0-307-77773-1)

"I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice." So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the terrain, and the poetry of "a country in which the ancient, opposing forces of creation and destruction were in violent collision." Recounting his travels there in 1986, in the midst of America's behind-the-scenes war against the Sandinistas, Rushdie reveals a nation resounding to the clashes between government and individuals, history and morality.


From the Trade Paperback edition.