Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdien läpimurtoteos.Kaikkien aikojen parhaaksi Booker-voittajaksi valittu Keskiyön lapset on maagisen realismin merkkipaalu, terävä poliittinen satiiri ja humoristinen perhetarina.Keskiyöllä 15. elokuuta 1947 ilotulitteiden räiskyessä Intia itsenäistyy ja Saleem Sinai syntyy - kuten myös tuhat muuta lasta: keskiyön lapset, joista jokaisella on oma yliluonnollinen kykynsä ja joihin Saleem on telepaattisessa yhteydessä. Saleemin kasvutarina kietoutuu yhteen nuoren valtion kanssa ja sinkoaa hänet keskelle sen kohtalonhetkiä.Salman Rushdie syntyi mumbailaiseen muslimiperheeseen vuonna 1947 ja muutti jo nuorena Englantiin. Hän opiskeli historiaa ja työskenteli mainostoimistossa ennen kirjailijanuraansa. Hänen teoksensa ovat kautta linjan herättäneet valtaisaa ihastusta, mutta myös suurta raivoa. Rushdie asuu nykyään New Yorkissa, ja vuonna 2007 Kuningatar Elisabeth II myönsi hänelle aatelisarvon.

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms of pregnancy, they shared the son that they all claim to have borne on the same night. Raised at their six breasts, Omar's mothers teach him to live a life without shame. And it is training that proves very useful when he leaves his mothers’ fortress and makes the fateful mistake of falling in love. For he finds himself an unwitting player in an ongoing duel between the families of two men – one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure – living in a world caught between honour and humiliation, where a moment of shame could prove fatal. ‘Shame is every bit as good as Midnight's Children. It is a pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives’ The Times

The extraordinary literary debut of Salman Rushdie: ‘A firework of a book, funny and endlessly surprising’ Ursula Le Guin Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister. But after 777 years of sailing the world’s seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island, a place where his fellow immortals have gathered and created their own version of the human race. But Calf Island is a strange place – like its inhabitants, it is both blessed and cursed. Sensing a terrible darkness at the heart of the island, Flapping Eagle sets out to scale the island’s peak and confront its mysterious and potent creator, Grimus himself. 'A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present day... Grimus is a parallel form of life, and conjuring of an alternative society' Financial Times

Vzletajuschij Orel, molodoj indeets iz plemeni aksona, vypivaet eliksir bessmertija i puskaetsja v bestselnye stranstvija po miru. Odnazhdy, okonchatelno poterjav svjaz s okruzhajuschej ego zhiznju, on reshaet najti takikh zhe, kak on sam. I v vozraste semisot semidesjati semi let okazyvaetsja na ostrove Kaf, gde bessmertnye sozdali svoju versiju chelovechestva.No eto ochen strannoe mesto: kak i ego obitateli, ono stol zhe blagoslovenno, skol i prokljato. Chuvstvuja uzhasnuju tmu v samom serdtse etogo mira, Vzletajuschij Orel reshaet vzobratsja na goru, venchajuschuju ostrov, i vstretitsja s ego zagadochnym i moguschestvennym sozdatelem - samim Grimusom.

Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination, and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gloriously diverse, multicultural nation is Christmas. The Christian communities of India celebrate the birth of Christ with food, music, lights, prayer, family gatherings, charity, and other age-old traditions. This anthology captures the distinctive magic of Christmas in India and in the Indian diaspora with a splendid collection of essays, stories, poems, and hymns―both in English and translated from India's other languages. It includes works by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Booker Prize winners Salman Rushdie and Aravind Adiga, Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, Khushwant Singh, Jerry Pinto, Damodar Mauzo, Vivek Menezes, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, and others writing about Christmas in Goa, Kerala, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, as well as in London and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

This self-portrait of the iconic Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) represents more than a life. For this book in two volumes, Amrita's extant letters and writings are translated and reproduced from the originals in their entirety. The book draws on the primary text of these letters to open up a visual narrative around the artist's oeuvre, complemented by a parallel text of notes that not only annotate but also entangle the personal in the web of contemporaneity. The editorial intervention expands the setting to include the artist's voice, photographs from the Sher-Gil family album, a collation of reviews from contemporary art critics, and excerpts from autobiographies and testimonies that touched Amrita's life. There are full-colour reproductions of 147 paintings by the artist, representing the largest such collection in print, as well as of her early sketches and watercolors. This archival effort makes for a definitive volume on the life, art and writings of Amrita Sher-Gil. The book includes a foreword by Salman Rushdie; a prologue and an epilogue by Vivan Sundaram; a complete list of Amrita Sher-Gil's 172 known oil paintings with thumbnail sketches and detailed captions; and a select bibliography of writings by and on Amrita Sher-Gil.

Taianomaisia tarinoita yhdeltä aikamme merkittävimmistä kirjailijoista. Rushdien uusin kertomuskokoelma pohtii elämää ja kuolemaa, perintöä ja identiteettiä. Tarinat liikkuvat niiden maiden välillä, joita Salman Rushdie on kutsunut kodeikseen - Intia, Englanti ja Amerikka. Kuinka jätämme hyvästit paikoille, joista on tullut kotimme? Kuinka voimme löytää elämällemme merkityksen, jos emme tiedä oman tarinamme loppua? Yhdestoista hetki on eräänlainen tilinpäätös: viisi kertomusta kuolevaisuudesta, joka kaikkien on joskus kohdattava Rushdien sanat, jotka ovat täynnä taikaa, huumoria ja teräviä huomioita, vievät lukijan Intian Chennaihin, Cambridgen yliopistoon, Bombayn kujille ja Amerikan Oklahomaan. Salman Rushdie on amerikkalais-englantilainen kirjailija, joka syntyi Intiassa. Läpimurtoteoksestaan Keskiyön lapset Rushdie sai Booker-palkinnon, ja hänen neljännen romaaninsa Saatanallisten säkeiden julkaisun jälkeen Iranin ylin johtaja julisti Rushdielle fatwan. Rushdien koko tuotanto käsittää kymmeniä teoksia: romaaneja, esseitä, elämäkertoja, lastenkirjoja ja tietokirjoja. Kaunokirjallisissa teoksissaan Rushdie yhdistää maagista realismia ja verevää historiankirjoitusta rikkaiksi kirjallisiksi monumenteiksi.

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 university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor. These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home – India, England and America – and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life. They are the reckoning with mortality that we all must one day make, and speak deeply to what the author has come from and through. Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? How do we achieve fulfilment with our lives if we don't know the end of our own stories? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time. ‘More than 40 years after Midnight's Children, there is still nobody who spins a yarn quite like Salman Rushdie’ Spectator ‘Rushdie has not just enlarged literature’s capacities, he has expanded the world’s imaginative possibilities’ The Times ‘Salman Rushdie is a genius’ A.M. Homes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie, a spellbinding exploration of life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life “An inventive and engrossing collection of stories which, though death-tinged, are never doom-laden. With luck this master writer has more tales to tell.”—Los Angeles Times A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life’s final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work—India, England, and America—and feature an unforgettable cast of characters. “In the South” introduces a pair of quarrelsome old men—Junior and Senior—and their private tragedy at a moment of national calamity. In “The Musician of Kahani,” a musical prodigy from the Mumbai neighborhood featured in Midnight’s Children uses her magical gifts to wreak devastation on the wealthy family she marries into. In “Late,” the ghost of a Cambridge don enlists the help of a lonely student to enact revenge upon the tormentor of his lifetime. “Oklahoma” plunges a young writer into a web of deceit and lies as he tries to figure out whether his mentor killed himself or faked his own death. And “The Old Man in the Piazza” is a powerful parable for our times about freedom of speech. Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? Do we spend our “eleventh hour” in serenity or in rage? And how do we achieve fulfillment with our lives if we don’t know the end of our own stories? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

El regreso a la ficci n de uno de los escritores m s c lebres de nuestro tiempo. Rushdie no solo ha ampliado lascapacidades de la literatura, sino que ha expandido las posibilidades imaginativas del mundo . The Times Tras el ataque sufrido en 2022, en el que casi pierde la vida y que relat en su anterior libro, Cuchillo, nuestro Scheherazade -como lo llam Ursula K. Le Guin- regresa a la ficci n. En estos cinco relatos, la desbordante imaginaci n de Salman Rushdie adopta un tono crepuscular. Vuelve a sus or genes, a las calles del Bombay de Hijos de la medianoche, donde se reencuentra con viejos personajes de la novela de 1981, y completa un recorrido por los tres pa ses donde ha vivido: India, Inglaterra y Estados Unidos. Nos dejamos llevar hacia la muerte o nos resistimos a ella? C mo nos despedimos de los lugares que han sido nuestro hogar? En estas historias donde se dan cita dos ancianos criminales, un infeliz matrimonio cargado de m sica, d lares y magia, el fantasma de un acad mico ingl s con ansias de venganza, una muerte misteriosa y una preciosa par bola sobre la libertad de expresi n, Rushdie se enfrenta a la pen ltima hora de la vida y reflexiona sobre la muerte y el legado, la identidad y la pertenencia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie, a spellbinding exploration of life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life's final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work--India, England, and America--and feature an unforgettable cast of characters. "In the South" introduces a pair of quarrelsome old men--Junior and Senior--and their private tragedy at a moment of national calamity. In "The Musician of Kahani," a musical prodigy from the Mumbai neighborhood featured in Midnight's Children uses her magical gifts to wreak devastation on the wealthy family she marries into. In "Late," the ghost of a Cambridge don enlists the help of a lonely student to enact revenge upon the tormentor of his lifetime. "Oklahoma" plunges a young writer into a web of deceit and lies as he tries to figure out whether his mentor killed himself or faked his own death. And "The Old Man in the Piazza" is a powerful parable for our times about freedom of speech. Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? Do we spend our "eleventh hour" in serenity or in rage? And how do we achieve fulfillment with our lives if we don't know the end of our own stories? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life’s final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work—India, England, and America—and feature an unforgettable cast of characters. “In the South” introduces a pair of quarrelsome old men—Junior and Senior—and their private tragedy at a moment of national calamity. In “The Musician of Kahani,” a musical prodigy from the Mumbai neighborhood featured in Midnight’s Children uses her magical gifts to wreak devastation on the wealthy family she marries into. In “Late,” the ghost of a Cambridge don enlists the help of a lonely student to enact revenge upon the tormentor of his lifetime. “Oklahoma” plunges a young writer into a web of deceit and lies as he tries to figure out whether his mentor killed himself or faked his own death. And “The Old Man in the Piazza” is a powerful parable for our times about freedom of speech. Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? Do we spend our “eleventh hour” in serenity or in rage? And how do we achieve fulfillment with our lives if we don’t know the end of our own stories? The Eleventh Hour probes life and death, legacy and identity, with wit, creativity, and keen insight.

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.

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 university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor.These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home – India, England and America – and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life. They are the reckoning with mortality that we all must one day make, and speak deeply to what the author has come from and through. Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? How do we achieve fulfilment with our lives if we don't know the end of our own stories? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.‘More than 40 years after Midnight's Children, there is still nobody who spins a yarn quite like Salman Rushdie’ Spectator‘Rushdie has not just enlarged literature’s capacities, he has expanded the world’s imaginative possibilities’ The Times‘Salman Rushdie is a genius’ A.M. Homes

Discover Salman Rushdie’s critically acclaimed magical realist study of good and evil. 'A masterpiece' Sunday Times Just before dawn one winter's morning, a plane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Washed up, alive, on an English beach, their survival is a miracle. But there is a price to pay. Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen as opponents in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil. But chosen by whom? And which is which? And what will be the outcome of their final confrontation? 'A great novelist, a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett

Oni poznakomilis v Bombee, sovsem junymi, i vljubilis drug v druga s pervogo vzgljada. Ona - obladatelnitsa volshebnogo golosa; on - genialnyj muzykant, v golove kotorogo zvuchat melodii, javivshiesja slovno iz potustoronnego mira - ili otkuda? to iz buduschego. Kak budto sama sudba prednaznachila im byt vmeste, no poisk sebja uvedet ee daleko iz Indii, i on posleduet za nej - snachala v Angliju, potom v Ameriku. Spustja gody oni budut sobirat ogromnye kontsertnye zaly i tselye stadiony, no put k uspekhu ne budet prostym - im pridetsja ne tolko protivostojat zavistnikam i nechestnym na ruku deltsam ot shou-biznesa, no i borotsja s vnutrennimi demonami, terjat i snova nakhodit drug druga. Posle ocherednoj razmolvki ona uedet odna - v Meksiku, gde sluchitsja strashnoe zemletrjasenie. Chto stanet delat predannyj Orfej, kogda zemlja razverznetsja pod nogami ego Evridiki?