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author spotlight
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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Midnight's Children
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Satanic Verses
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
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The Enchantress of Florence
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
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 >
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Shalimar the Clown
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
“Dazzling . . . Modern thriller, Ramayan epic, courtroom drama, slapstick comedy, wartime adventure, political satire, village legend–they’re all blended here magnificently.”
–The Washington Post Book World
This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America’s counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the modern world; his Kashmiri Muslim driver and subsequent killer, a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
“Dazzling . . . Modern thriller, Ramayan epic, courtroom drama, slapstick comedy, wartime adventure, political satire, village legend–they’re all blended here magnificently.”
–The Washington Post Book World
This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America’s counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the modern world; his Kashmiri Muslim driver and subsequent killer, a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Shame
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
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The Moor's Last Sigh
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
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 >
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East, West
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 23, 1995
Price: $13.95
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 23, 1995
Price: $13.95
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence. Read more >
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Midnight's Children
Format: Hardcover, 624 pages
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947—and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones. Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 624 pages
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947—and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Fury
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $13.95
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Salman Rushdie’s great grasp of the human tragicomedy–its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors–has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language.”
–Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe
“Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work of fiction. It reaffirms Rushdie’s standing . . . at... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $13.95
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Salman Rushdie’s great grasp of the human tragicomedy–its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors–has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language.”
–Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe
“Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work of fiction. It reaffirms Rushdie’s standing . . . at... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Grimus
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $15.00
“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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $15.00
“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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Step Across This Line
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $15.95
For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV
With astonishing range... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $15.95
For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV
With astonishing range... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Jaguar Smile
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.00
“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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.00
“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... Read more >
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The Enchantress of Florence
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
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 >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 18, 2003
Price: $13.95
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 proclaimed its independence from Great... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 18, 2003
Price: $13.95
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 proclaimed its independence from Great... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Grimus
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $15.00
“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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $15.00
“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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $13.95
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 proclaimed its independence from Great... Read more >
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $13.95
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 proclaimed its independence from Great... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Fury
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 4, 2001
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 >
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 4, 2001
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Step Across This Line
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $15.95
From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times.
Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction’s most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie’s incisive, thoughtful and generous mind, in prose that... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $15.95
From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times.
Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction’s most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie’s incisive, thoughtful and generous mind, in prose that... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Shalimar the Clown
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $14.95
Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story.
Max Ophuls’ memorable life ends violently in Los Angeles in 1993 when he is murdered... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $14.95
Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story.
Max Ophuls’ memorable life ends violently in Los Angeles in 1993 when he is murdered... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Enchantress of Florence
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $14.00
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 >
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $14.00
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 >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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