Salman Rushdie

Děti půlnoci je historický román Salmana Rushdieho, britského spisovatele indického původu, vydaný v roce 1981. Zabývá se přechodem Indie od britského kolonialismu k nezávislosti až po rozdělení indického státu. Řadí se do postkoloniální literatury a magického realismu. Příběh, který je zasazen do kontextu aktuálních …

Satanské verše je román spisovatele Salmana Rushdieho, psaný v autorově stylu magického realismu. Mnohavrstevné dílo vykresluje rozpory mezi způsobem vnímání rozdílných kultur, především muslimské mystiky a západního racionalismu. Za toto dílo byl autor odsouzen ájatolláhem Chomejním k trestu smrti. Na podporu tohoto …

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 …

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 …

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, …