The Books

The Enchantress of Florence
Profoundly moving and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders.

Shalimar the Clown
An epic narrative that moves from California to Kashmir, France, and England, and back to California again. Along the way there are tales of princesses lured from their homes by demons...

Step Across This Line:
Collected Non-Fiction 1992-2002
With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by Salman Rushdie.

Fury
An astonishing work of explosive energy, Fury is by turns a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a love story of mesmerizing force, and a disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet
In this remaking of the myth of Orpheus, Rushdie tells the story of Vina Apsara, a pop star, and Ormus Cama, an extraordinary songwriter and musician, who captivate and change the world through their music and their romance.

Mirrorwork
50 Years of Indian Writing, 1947-1997
Co-edited with Elizabeth West
This unique anthology presents thirty-two selections by Indian authors writing in English over the past half-century.

The Moor's Last Sigh
A ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love.

East, West
East, West is a collection of nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West.

Imaginary Homelands
Essays & Criticism 1981-1991
Salman Rushdie at his most candid, impassioned, and incisive—Imaginary Homelands is an important and moving record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz.

The Satanic Verses
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book.

The Jaguar Smile
Recounting his travels there in 1986, in the midst of America’s behind-the-scenes war against the Sandinistas, Rushdie reveals a nation resounding to the clashes between government and individuals, history and morality.

Shame
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.”

Midnight's Children
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence.

Grimus
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.