Salman Rushdie

Middernachtskinderen is een Engelstalige roman van de Brits-Indiase schrijver Salman Rushdie, in het Nederlands vertaald door Max Schuchart.

De duivelsverzen is een roman van de auteur Salman Rushdie die in 1988 verscheen. In 1989 kwam de Nederlandse vertaling op de markt. Het boek begint bij de ontploffing van een gekaapt vliegtuig boven Zuid-Engeland. Djibriel Farishta en Saladin Chamcha, twee Indiase acteurs, vallen uit de lucht op het Engelse strand. …

Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's book by Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie's fifth novel after The Satanic Verses. It is a phantasmagorical story that begins in a city so old and ruinous that it has forgotten its name. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is an allegory for several problems existing in society …

De verleidster van Florence is een roman van Salman Rushdie uit 2008. Het is volgens de auteur het boek waarvoor hij de meeste research heeft gedaan. Achterin het boek staat een uitgebreide literatuurlijst, met daarbij de opmerking dat het gaat om een onvolledige lijst. In het verhaal worden de oosterse, de westerse …

Moares 'Moor' Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinise spice merchants and crime lords. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a labyrinthine tale of mad passions and volcanic family …

Shalimar the Clown is a 2005 novel by Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children. Shalimar the Clown was initially published on September 6, 2005 by Jonathan Cape and has attracted significant attention, comparable to his earlier publications, particularly The Moor's Last Sigh and …

The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's sixth novel. Published in 1999, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth with rock music replacing Orpheus' lyre. The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to which he attaches an endless series of references. The book, while at its …

Fury, published in 2001, is the seventh novel by postcolonial author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie deploys a Roman conceit as an extended metaphor throughout the novel as he depicts contemporary New York City as the epicenter of globalization and all of its tragic flaws.

Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. Like most of Rushdie's work, this book was written in the style of magic realism. It portrays the lives of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and their relationship. The central theme of the novel is that violence is born out of shame. The …

East, West is a 1994 anthology of short stories by Salman Rushdie. The book is divided into three main sections, entitled "East", "West", and "East, West", each section containing stories from their respective geographical areas. Though Rushdie himself never divulged the exact inspirations for his stories in East, …