The Satanic Verses (Rushdie Salman)(Pevná vazba)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

Golden House (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

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

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

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

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,

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

Jaguar Smile - A Nicaraguan Journey (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Presents a portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua. This book brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. It shows us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, everything is contested, and life-or-death struggles

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub-Stan Lee creation. A seductive gold digger is soon

Enchantress of Florence (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He calls himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, and claims to be the son of a lost princess, whose name and has been erased

Home - Vintage Minis (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

A self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', the author explores the true meaning of home. He looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of memory and what happens when East meets

Haroun and Luka (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true? I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can't tell stories anymore. That means no more laughter in the city of Alifbay and now the place stinks of sadness. So it's up to me to put things

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

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Haroun's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie)(Paperback / softback)

Haroun's father is the greatest storyteller. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie

Grimus (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

But after 777 years of sailing the world's seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island, a place where his fellow immortals have gathered and created their own version of the human race. But Calf Island is a strange place - like its inhabitants, it is both blessed

Ground Beneath Her Feet (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

'The first great rock 'n' roll novel in the English language' The TimesOn Valentine's Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating

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