Flapping Eagle is a young Indian given the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. Tiring of the burden of immortal life he sets off to find the mystical Calf Island, where he can rejoin the human race.
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 author.
Across a wide variety of subjects, Rushdie delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need and what emerges is a love letter to literature itself.
Am 15. August 1947, Schlag Mitternacht, wird Saleem Sinai geboren – begrüßt von Fanfaren und Feuerwerken, denn in genau diesem Moment erlangt Indien seine Unabhängigkeit.
Als Saleem Sinai am 15. August 1947 um Mitternacht zur Welt kommt, wird er mit Fanfaren und Feuerwerken begrüßt - denn genau in diesem Moment erlangt Indien seine Unabhängigkeit...
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown.
In this brilliantly focussed 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 revolution.
Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the last survuving scion of a dynasty of Cochinise spice merchants and crime lords. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.
The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ('for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies') and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years,...
In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history.
Über der englischen Küste wird ein Flugzeug in die Luft gesprengt. Die einzigen Überlebenden sind Gibril Farishta und Saladin Chamcha, zwei indische Schauspieler, die wie durch ein Wunder unversehrt bleiben.
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 long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist, the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government.
Rachel Lambert leaves London afraid for her personal safety and determined to uncover the truth behind the sudden death of a homeless man with links to a country house hotel called Hare's Landing.