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Joseph Anton – A Memoir

Grimus by Salman Rushdie

Grimus A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 320 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction | $15.00 | 978-0-307-52911-4 (0-307-52911-8)

"A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present-day . . . Thunderous and touching."
–Financial Times

After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing–and ultimately the burden–of living forever...

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 144 pages | Modern Library | Drama | $13.95 | 978-0-307-53838-3 (0-307-53838-9)

The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.

In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India ...

The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

The Enchantress of Florence A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieTrade Paperback, 368 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction - Literary | $14.00 | 978-0-679-64051-6 (0-679-64051-7)

The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant...

The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

The Enchantress of Florence A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieeBook | Random House | Fiction | $14.00 | 978-1-58836-758-7 (1-58836-758-4)

A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital, a tale about a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, and her...

Shame by Salman Rushdie

Shame A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieTrade Paperback, 320 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction - Literary | $15.00 | 978-0-8129-7670-0 (0-8129-7670-3)

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 ...

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieTrade Paperback, 576 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction - Literary | $16.00 | 978-0-8129-7671-7 (0-8129-7671-1)

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...

The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie

The Jaguar Smile A Nicaraguan Journey
Written by Salman RushdieTrade Paperback, 160 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Travel - Central America | $14.00 | 978-0-8129-7672-4 (0-8129-7672-X)

"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...

The Outsiders: John Pilger Interview

Famed British journalist John Pilger interviews Salman Rushdie in 1983. Pilger has won an Emmy and a BAFTA for his documentaries, which have also won numerous US and European awards, such as as the Royal Television Society’s Best Documentary.

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