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De què serveixen les històries que ni tan sols són veritat?», pregunta Haroun al seu pare Rashid, un contacontes conegut com l'Oce de les Idees, quan sa mare els abandona per algú menys fantasiós. El seu talent corre el risc de desaparèixer perquè té el cor destrossat. Per retornar-li el Do de la ­Paraula, Haroun viatja a l'Oce dels Corrents de les Històries, la font de la qual brollen tots els relats. Acompanyat pel peculiar geni de l'aigua Sii i altres companys de viatge singulars, ha d'enfrontar-se al poder del silenci i l'obscuritat que amenaça de destruir aquest món. Ser un dur combat entre el bé i el mal, entre la foscor i la llum.

Le jour de l'investiture de Barack Obama, un énigmatique millionnaire, venu d'un pays d'Orient, prend ses quartiers dans une communauté préservée au coeur de Greenwich Village, avec ses trois fils adultes aussi brillants qu'excentriques. René Unterlinden, un jeune réalisateur, voit en ces nouveaux voisins une source d'inspiration inespérée.

When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities and reinvent themselves as Roman emperors living in a lavish house 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 powerful 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 The Golden House, as entertaining as it is poignant, Rushdie has written a revelatory panorama of our time.

Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India's independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But, this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' - all born in the initial hour of India's independence - and an uncanny sense of smell which allows him to sniff out dangers others cannot perceive. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's biography is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.

Allegorical novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1981. It is a historical chronicle of modern India centering on the inextricably linked fates of two children born within the first hour of independence from Great Britain. Exactly at midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, two boys are born in a Bombay hospital, where they are switched by a nurse. Saleem Sinai, who will be raised by a well-to-do Muslim couple, is actually the illegitimate son of a low-caste Hindu woman and a departing British colonist. Shiva, the son of the Muslim couple, is given to a poor Hindu street performer whose unfaithful wife has died. Saleem represents modern India. When he is 30, he writes his memoir, Midnight''s Children. Shiva is destined to be Saleem''s enemy as well as India''s most honored war hero. This multilayered novel places Saleem in every significant event that occurred on the Indian subcontinent in the 30 years after independence. Midnight''s Children was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1981.

Un enigmàtic viatger alt i ros que es fa dir Mogor dell’Amore travessa el món amb l’objectiu de revelar un poderós secret sobre el qual pesa una maledicció: només hi ha un home que el pot escoltar i

Un misterioso viaggiatore dai capelli biondi arriva a Sikri, sede della corte Mogol, e chiede udienza al sovrano Jalalluddin Muhammed Akbar, detto Akbar il Grande. Lo straniero afferma di venire da una sconosciuta, remotissima citta di nome Firenze e di avere una storia tanto meravigliosa quanto veritiera da raccontare: una storia che lega i destini della misteriosa capitale d''Occidente da cui proviene a quelli della discendenza del monarca indiano. Inizia cosi un racconto che, unendo una pirotecnica inventiva a una minuziosissima documentazione, si snoda tra figure storiche gigantesche, una fra tutte Machiavelli, e vede tra i protagonisti l''enigmatica Qara Koz, "Madama Occhi Neri", principessa destinata a sconvolgere con la sua esotica e rara bellezza la raffinata corte medicea. Quanto c''e di vero nel racconto del viaggiatore, il quale afferma di non essere altri che il figlio di Qara Koz? E se cio che racconta e vero, che ne e stato della principessa? Non si trattera invece di un bugiardo che, in quanto tale, merita solo la morte?

The best-selling author of Midnight's Children presents the story of one woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world, in a novel that brings together two distant cities--the hedonistic Mughal capital ruled by the brilliant Akbar the Great, and Niccolò More... Machiavelli's Florence during the High Renaissance.

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell 'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Koz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbek warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, and much trouble ensues."The Enchantress of Florence" is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia's boyhood friend 'il Machia' - Niccolo Machiavelli - is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he's a liar, must he die?

Curieuse apparition que ce jeune homme blond fièrement dressé sur un char à b?ufs et sur le point d''entrer à la cour du grand Moghol, au c?ur des Indes. Le voyageur se fait appeler " Mogor dell''Amo

Presents a portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua. This book brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. It shows us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, everything is contested, and life-or-death struggles are an everyday occurrence.

Luka had already once experienced having magical powers. His father had told him much about the World of Magic, which exists in parallel to the Real World. In that World could be found the Fire of Life on top of the Mountain of Knowledge from which flows the Torrent of Words into the Lake of Wisdom out of which flows the River of Time. Luka now crosses into that World of Magic and sets out on the quest to bring the Fire of Life back to his father. The journey is of course full of bizarre happenings, obstacles and life-threatening dangers. Luckily, as in the Virtual Reality of computer games, Luka has a certain number of lives he can lose without being out of the game. Along the route Salman Rushdie introduces philosophical themes. The importance of the imagination and of story telling is of course again one of them. Another, recurring frequently, is the nature of Time. Adding to his own exuberant and kaleidoscopic creations, Rushdie plays with and joyfully combines elements of ancient folk tales and mythologies of ancient cultures ranging from Mexico through the Mediterranean and the Middle East to India and Japan, and from Scandinavia to Africa. And at the climax, when all these mythical creatures are about to put a horrible end to Luka's quest and to deny him the Fire that might save his father's life, he disarms them in a magnificent and truly Rushdiean manner, and they even help him on the perilous journey back to the Real World.

Saludada por la crítica como la mejor obra de su autor hasta la fecha, El último suspiro del Moro crea, a partir del caos cultural de Bombay, una metáfora universal sobre la decadencia del mundo contemporaneo. Pero tambien un himno al amor y a la belleza del mundo. Y un alegato contra las fronteras que separan los paises y a los individuos. Utilizando de manera personalisima los recursos del realismo magico, esta saga familiar que recorre todo el siglo XX "combina genialmente lo comico y lo fantastico, la invencion y la narracion historica, y crea con todo ello un conjunto desbordante de vitalidad" (Malcom Bradbury).

A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed Step Across This LineLanguages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imaginationSalman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word, and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time.Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, Languages of Truth chronicles Rushdie's own intellectual engagement with a period of momentous cultural shifts. Immersing the reader in a wide variety of subjects, he delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need, and what emerges is, in myriad ways, a love letter to literature itself. Rushdie explores what the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison mean to him, often by telling vivid, sometimes humorous stories of his own personal encounters with them, whether on the page or in person. He delves deeper than ever before into the nature of "truth," revels in the vibrant malleability of language, and the creative lines that can join art and life, and he looks anew at migration, multiculturalism and censorship. The ideas, true stories, and arguments presented here are at once revelatory, funny, and eye-opening, enlivened on every page by Rushdie's signature wit and dazzling voice, making this volume a genuine pleasure to read.

In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where 'Anything-Can-Happen'. Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirise the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse, with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work. The fully realised lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of