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Salman Rushdie is the author of nine previous novels: Grimus; Midnight’s Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and, in 1993, was judged to be the “Booker of Bookers,” the best novel to have won that prize in its first twenty-five years); Shame (winner of the French Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger); The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel); Haroun and the Sea of Stories (winner of the Writers Guild Award); The Moor’s Last Sigh (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel); The Ground Beneath Her Feet (winner of the Eurasian section of the... Read More
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East, West
Stories
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 23, 1995
Price: $13.95
In his first major work since The Satanic Verses, Rushdie gives us nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. From rickshaw drivers to occultists, Christopher Columbus to Hamlet's court jester, the characters in East, West inhabit a world in which nationality, and even... Read more >
Stories
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 23, 1995
Price: $13.95
In his first major work since The Satanic Verses, Rushdie gives us nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. From rickshaw drivers to occultists, Christopher Columbus to Hamlet's court jester, the characters in East, West inhabit a world in which nationality, and even... Read more >
The Enchantress of Florence
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $14.00
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A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $14.00
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The Enchantress of Florence
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
The Enchantress of Florence
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $26.00
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... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $26.00
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... Read more >
Fury
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $13.95
"Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $13.95
"Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We... Read more >
Fury
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 4, 2001
Price: $13.95
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A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 4, 2001
Price: $13.95
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Grimus
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $15.00
The first novel by one of our greatest novelists, restored to print by the Modern Library
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. Eventually, he... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $15.00
The first novel by one of our greatest novelists, restored to print by the Modern Library
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. Eventually, he... Read more >
Grimus
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $15.00
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A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $15.00
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The Jaguar Smile
A Nicaraguan Journey
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.00
In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution.
Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, harboring no preconceptions of what he might find... Read more >
A Nicaraguan Journey
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.00
In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution.
Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, harboring no preconceptions of what he might find... Read more >
Midnight's Children
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
Midnight's Children
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Hardcover, 624 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $25.00
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Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Hardcover, 624 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $25.00
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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook, 144 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $13.95
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Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook, 144 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $13.95
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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 18, 2003
Price: $13.95
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Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 18, 2003
Price: $13.95
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The Moor's Last Sigh
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
The Satanic Verses
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $16.00
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two men--Gibreel Farishta, the biggest movie star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years--plummet from the sky. Washing up on the snow-covered sands... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $16.00
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two men--Gibreel Farishta, the biggest movie star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years--plummet from the sky. Washing up on the snow-covered sands... Read more >
Shalimar the Clown
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
Whitbread Novel Award, 2005 shortlist
Max Ophuls’ memorable life ends violently in Los Angeles in 1993 when he is murdered by his Muslim driver Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar the Clown. At first the crime seems to be politically motivated–Ophuls was previously ambassador to India, and later US counterterrorism chief–but... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
Whitbread Novel Award, 2005 shortlist
Max Ophuls’ memorable life ends violently in Los Angeles in 1993 when he is murdered by his Muslim driver Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar the Clown. At first the crime seems to be politically motivated–Ophuls was previously ambassador to India, and later US counterterrorism chief–but... Read more >
Shalimar the Clown
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $14.95
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A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $14.95
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Shame
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.00
In this brilliant novel, Salman Rushdie masterfully combines history, art, language, politics, and religion. Set in a country "not
quite Pakistan," the story centers around the families of two men--one a celebrated warrior, the other, a debauched playboy
engaged in a protracted duel that is played out in the political landscape of their... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.00
In this brilliant novel, Salman Rushdie masterfully combines history, art, language, politics, and religion. Set in a country "not
quite Pakistan," the story centers around the families of two men--one a celebrated warrior, the other, a debauched playboy
engaged in a protracted duel that is played out in the political landscape of their... Read more >
Step Across This Line
Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $15.95
The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writer’s psyche.
With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong... Read more >
Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $15.95
The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writer’s psyche.
With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong... Read more >
Step Across This Line
Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $15.95
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Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $15.95
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