Salman Rushdie

El regreso a la ficción de uno de los escritores más célebres de nuestro tiempo. «Rushdie no solo ha ampliado lascapacidades de la literatura, sino que ha expandido las posibilidades imaginativas del

El regreso a la ficción de uno de los escritores más célebres de nuestro tiempo.«Rushdie no solo ha ampliado lascapacidades de la literatura, sino que ha expandido las posibilidades imaginativas del

*German Booksellers' Peace Prize 2023* Los versos satánicos es la novela más célebre, iconoclasta y polémica de Salman Rushdie. Una referencia ineludible de la literatura de nuestro tiempo. Un avión secuestrado estalla a gran altura sobre el canal de la Mancha. Dos supervivientes caen al mar: Gibrel Farishta, un legendario galan cinematografico, y Saladin Chamcha, el hombre de las mil voces, autodidacta y anglofilo furibundo. Consiguen llegar a una playa inglesa y notan unos extraños cambios: uno ha adquirido una aureola y el otro ve con horror como crece el vello de sus piernas, los pies se le convierten en cascos y las sienes se abultan... Rushdie tuvo que cambiar radicalmente de vida despues de publicar Los versos satanicos. Esta obra trajo consigo una fuerte polemica, desde la prohibicion y quema del libro en los paises musulmanes hasta graves disturbios tanto en Inglaterra como en Estados Unidos. El 14 de febrero de 1989, el ayatola Jomeini proclamo una fetua instando a la poblacion musulmana a ejecutar a cualquier persona relacionada con la publicacion del libro. Se llego incluso a ofrecer una recompensa en efectivo por la muerte de Rushdie y muchos de los traductores del libro sufrieron intentos de asesinato en todo el mundo. Hitoshi Igarashi, el traductor de Los versos satanicos al japones, fue asesinado en 1991. Salman Rushdie sufrio un intento de asesinato en agosto de 2022 al ser apuñalado en un acto publico.Reseña:Una obra prodigiosa, brillante, deleitable.Nadine Gordimer

If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour. Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight''s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can''t rest until he avenges his former tormentor. Following Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie''s new fiction moves between the places he has grown up in, inhabited, explored, and left. In doing so, he asks fundamental questions we all one day face. How does one deal with, accommodate, or rail against entering the eleventh hour, the final stage of your life? How can you bid farewell to the places you have made home? The Eleventh Hour is the magisterial new work from one of our greatest living writers. It speaks deeply to what Salman Rushdie has come from and through, and strikes into the heart of our fractious times.

*German Booksellers' Peace Prize 2023* El mito de Orfeo según Rushdie: un relato de amor, muerte y rock'n'roll. Esta es la historia de cómo Vina Apsara, una cantante famosa de voz salvaje e irresistible, desaparecio en un terremoto devastador y de como Ormus Cama, su amante, la encontro, la perdio y volvio a encontrarla. Rai, un fotografo amigo de Ormus y amante ocasional de Vina, narra la historia en su propia voz, una voz llena de rabia, sabiduria, amor y humor. El suelo bajo sus pies es, en definitiva, la historia de un amor que se prolonga mas alla de la muerte, una revision del mito de Orfeo y tambien un retrato del fracasado encuentro entre Oriente y Occidente. En resumidas cuentas, un relato de amor, muerte y rock'n'roll.Opinion:Una novela exuberante y lisergica. Rushdie apabulla.The Washington Post

*German Booksellers' Peace Prize 2023* El mejor premio Booker de toda la historia. Una asombrosa novela que combina magistralmente magia y humor, compromiso político, fantasía y humanidad. Esta es la historia de Saleem Sinai, nacido en Bombay al filo de la medianoche del 15 de agosto de 1947, en el momento mismo en que la India, entre fuegos artificiales y multitudes, alcanza su independencia. El destino de Saleem queda inexorablemente unido al de su pais, y sus peripecias personales reflejaran siempre la evolucion politica de la India o seran reflejadas por ella. Hijos de la medianoche es una asombrosa novela que combina magistralmente magia y humor, compromiso politico, fantasia y humanidad.La critica ha dicho...Una de las grandes novelas del siglo.ABC Salman Rushdie se ha ganado el derecho de ser designado uno de nuestros mayores narradores.The Observer Hijos de la medianoche vuelve a trazar el mapa literario de la India. Suena como un pais encontrando su voz propia.The New York Times

*German Booksellers' Peace Prize 2023* Los versos satánicos es la novela más célebre, iconoclasta y polémica de Salman Rushdie. Una referencia ineludible de la literatura de nuestro tiempo. Un avión secuestrado estalla a gran altura sobre el canal de la Mancha. Dos supervivientes caen al mar: Gibrel Farishta, un legendario galan cinematografico, y Saladin Chamcha, el hombre de las mil voces, autodidacta y anglofilo furibundo. Consiguen llegar a una playa inglesa y notan unos extraños cambios: uno ha adquirido una aureola y el otro ve con horror como crece el vello de sus piernas, los pies se le convierten en cascos y las sienes se abultan... Rushdie tuvo que cambiar radicalmente de vida despues de publicar Los versos satanicos. Esta obra trajo consigo una fuerte polemica, desde la prohibicion y quema del libro en los paises musulmanes hasta graves disturbios tanto en Inglaterra como en Estados Unidos. El 14 de febrero de 1989, el ayatola Jomeini proclamo una fetua instando a la poblacion musulmana a ejecutar a cualquier persona relacionada con la publicacion del libro. Se llego incluso a ofrecer una recompensa en efectivo por la muerte de Rushdie y muchos de los traductores del libro sufrieron intentos de asesinato en todo el mundo. Hitoshi Igarashi, el traductor de Los versos satanicos al japones, fue asesinado en 1991. Salman Rushdie sufrio un intento de asesinato en agosto de 2022 al ser apuñalado en un acto publico.Reseña:Una obra prodigiosa, brillante, deleitable.Nadine Gordimer

*German Booksellers' Peace Prize 2023* El mejor premio Booker de toda la historia. Una asombrosa novela que combina magistralmente magia y humor, compromiso político, fantasía y humanidad. Esta es la historia de Saleem Sinai, nacido en Bombay al filo de la medianoche del 15 de agosto de 1947, en el momento mismo en que la India, entre fuegos artificiales y multitudes, alcanza su independencia. El destino de Saleem queda inexorablemente unido al de su pais, y sus peripecias personales reflejaran siempre la evolucion politica de la India o seran reflejadas por ella. Hijos de la medianoche es una asombrosa novela que combina magistralmente magia y humor, compromiso politico, fantasia y humanidad.La critica ha dicho...Una de las grandes novelas del siglo.ABC Salman Rushdie se ha ganado el derecho de ser designado uno de nuestros mayores narradores.The Observer Hijos de la medianoche vuelve a trazar el mapa literario de la India. Suena como un pais encontrando su voz propia.The New York Times

Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell - we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.

Weltbestseller und Meilenstein der WeltliteraturAm 15. August 1947, Schlag Mitternacht, wird Saleem Sinai geboren begrut von Fanfaren und Feuerwerken, denn in genau diesem Moment erlangt Indien seine Unabhangigkeit. Fortan ist Saleems Leben untrennbar mit dem Schicksal des neugeborenen Staates verbunden. Und wie die eintausend anderen Mitternachtskinder, die in dieser Nacht das Licht der Welt erblicken, verfugt auch Saleem uber eine besondere telepathische Gabe, die es ihm und dem Leser ermoglicht, in die faszinierende Geschichte seiner Familie einzutauchen eine Saga vor dem Hintergrund der wechselhaften Geschichte Indiens im 20. Jahrhundert.

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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. Abandoned at the mayors office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining.Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world.Once the line between worlds is breached on a grand scale, Dunias children and others will play a role in an epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nights - or two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. It is a time of enormous upheaval, in which beliefs

Haroun''s father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But, one terrible day, everything goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell.Haroun, determined to return the storyteller''s gift to his father, flies off on the back of the Hoopoe bird to the Sea of Stories - and so begins a fabulous, exciting and dazzling adventure.

When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking ''Roman'' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society.The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, Rene, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. Rene chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work.Invoking literature, pop culture, and the cinema, Rushdie spins the story of the American zeitgeist over the last eight years, hitting every beat: the rise of the birther movement, the Tea Party, Gamergate and identity politics; the backlash against political correctness; the ascendency of the superhero movie, and, of course, the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain wearing make-up and with coloured hair.In a new world order of alternative truths, Salman Rushdie has written the ultimate novel about identity, truth, terror and lies. A brilliant, heartbreaking realist novel that is not only uncannily prescient but shows one of the worlds greatest storytellers working at the height of his powers.

This title includes a reading guide. Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious This title includes a reading guide. Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious Hide