Salman Rushdie

Grimus is a 1975 fantasy and science fiction novel by Salman Rushdie. It was his literary debut. The story loosely follows Flapping Eagle, a young Indian who receives the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. After drinking the fluid, Flapping Eagle wanders the earth for 777 years 7 months and 7 days, …

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, …

La Honte est un roman de Salman Rushdie paru en 1983. Le livre fut lauréat du prix Booker en fiction l'année de sa parution et, en France, du prix du Meilleur livre étranger en 1985. Portail de la littérature

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.

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 …

Shalimar le Clown est un roman de Salman Rushdie publié en septembre 2005. Le titre Shalimar le clown vient des jardins de Shalimar, à proximité de Srinagar, un des jardins moghols, qui date de la période où les Moghols régnaient sur le sous-continent indien. Shalimar est le nom d'un des personnages du roman. Shalimar …

Le Dernier Soupir du Maure est le cinquième roman de l'écrivain britannique d'origine indienne Salman Rushdie. Écrit en anglais, il a été publié en 1995 sous le titre The Moor's Last Sigh. Prenant comme décor les villes de Cochin et de Bombay, il retrace l'histoire de quatre générations de la famille du narrateur, …

This brilliant, fascinating, generous novel swarms with gorgeous young women both historical and imagined, beautiful queens and irresistible enchantresses...a sumptuous, impetuous mixture of history with fable. But in the end, of course, it is the hand of the master artist, past all explanation, that gives this book …

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 …

Les Versets sataniques est le quatrième roman de Salman Rushdie, publié en 1988, pour lequel il gagne la même année le Whitbread Award. Le 14 février 1989, l'ayatollah Khomeini publie une fatwa de mort contre lui en mettant en cause son œuvre et force l'auteur à entrer dans la clandestinité.