Midnight's Children (Rushdie Salman)(Pevná vazba)

Midnight's Children (Rushdie Salman)(Pevná vazba)

A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was

Midnight's Children (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked

Midnight's Children (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback)

The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to 'a glittering novelist--one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling' (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS - SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library

Fury (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

An astounding, intense novel by the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight's Children. In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. And so he steps out of his life once again and begins a new one in New York. But New York is a city

Midnight's Children (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special

Mapping Out the Rushdie Republic: Some Recent Surveys (Ghosh Tapan Kumar)(Pevná vazba)

Mapping out the Rushdie Republic differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of content. Every major work of the writer is paid due attention as separate articles are devoted to every aspect of his literary

The Satanic Verses (Rushdie Salman)(Pevná vazba)

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

Florence Stories(Pevná vazba)

Salman Rushdie's dazzling novel The Enchantress of Florence takes inspiration from the city's gilded Renaissance past, while Mary McCarthy's masterful travelogue captures a bustling 20th century market

Golden House (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Joseph Anton - A Memoir (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence. This book offers an account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a

Shame (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared

Satanic Verses (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India’s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices

Jazyky pravdy - Salman Rushdie - e-kniha

eBook: V kolekci brilantně napsaných textů se Rushdie profiluje nejen jako oddaný obhájce svobody slova a umělecké výpovědi, ale především jako znalec světového písemnictví a kultury. Věnuje se velkým literátům 20. století z rodu Kurta Vonneguta nebo Samuela Becketta,

Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 - Salman Rushdie

Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century—including many texts never previously in print—by the Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling authorSalman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order,

Sameen Rushdie's Indian Cookery (Rushdie Sameen)(Pevná vazba)

Drawing together the traditional recipes from different Indian cuisines, Sameen Rushdie's invitation to share in the pleasures of Indian cookery is irresistible.In Hindustani a good cook is one that 'has special taste in their hands', and the author demonstrates her skill, knowledge and love of the

Quijote - Salman Rushdie

Odvážné převyprávění klasického Cervantesova příběhu a současně svérázná reflexe televizní kultury. Tak by se ve zkratce dal charakterizovat nový Rushdieho román, jenž byl, tak jako celá řada autorových dalších děl, nominován na prestižní Man Bookerovu cenu. V

Klaun Šalimar - Salman Rushdie

Když je na prahu losangeleského domu své dcery zavražděn někdejší hrdina protinacistického odboje a velvyslanec USA v Indii Maximilian Ophuls, vše nasvědčuje politickému pozadí činu, jehož pachatelem je Ophulsův osobní řidič 'klaun Šalimar', muslimský rodák z Kašmíru

Hanba - Salman Rushdie - audiokniha

Audiokniha: Rushdieho Hanba má spletitý děj: V honosném sídle spojeném se světem pouze nákladním výtahem se třem zhanobeným sestrám narodí syn Omar Chajjám Šakíl. Když se konečně odpoutá od jejich vlivu, vydá se z domu na pouť jakéhosi dychtivého voyeura všech metamorfóz

Jazyky pravdy - Salman Rushdie

„Když Christopher Hitchens dopsal svou knihu Bůh není veliký, poslal mi ji, abych si ji přečetl, a já mu řekl, jen napůl v žertu, že má v názvu jedno slovo navíc; bylo by užitečné, kdyby vymazal ‚veliký‘.“ Touto větou otevírá známý spisovatel esej Instinkt svobody. V

Zlatý dům - Salman Rushdie

Světoznámý prozaik, jehož každé nové dílo se očekává v předtuše planetární senzace, napsal první velký román trumpovské éry. Mnohovrstevnatý příběh, který rámuje vláda Baracka Obamy a volba prezidenta nového, vypráví o záhadném magnátovi Neru Goldenovi a jeho třech

Zlatý dům - Salman Rushdie - e-kniha

eBook:,Světoznámý prozaik, jehož každé nové dílo se očekává v předtuše planetární senzace, napsal první velký román trumpovské éry. Mnohovrstevnatý příběh, který rámuje vláda Baracka Obamy a volba prezidenta nového, vypráví o záhadném magnátovi Neru Goldenovi a jeho

Magic(al) Realism (Ann Bowers Maggie)(Paperback)

Bestselling novels by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a multitude of others have enchanted us by blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Their genre of writing has been variously defined as 'magic', 'magical' or 'marvellous' realism and is quickly becoming a core

East, West (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. With one foot in the East and one foot in the West, this collection reveals the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between the

Moor's Last Sigh (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

A family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the