Salman Rushdie

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie. In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga - literally 'victory city' - the wonder of the world. Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga's, from its literal sowing out of a bag of magic seeds to its tragic ruination in the most human of ways: the hubris of those in power. Whispering Bisnaga and its citizens into existence, Pampa Kampana attempts to make good on the task that Parvati set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have a way of getting away from their creator, and Bisnaga is no exception. As years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, the very fabric of Bisnaga becomes an ever more complex tapestry - with Pampa Kampana at its center. Brilliantly styled as a translation of an ancient epic, this is a saga of love, adventure, and myth that is in itself a testament to the power of storytelling.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries--from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Year - "Victory City is a triumph--not because it exists, but because it is utterly enchanting."--The AtlanticA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, The Globe and Mail, Bookreporter In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga--"victory city"--the wonder of the world. Over the next 250 years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga's, from its literal sowing from a bag of magic seeds to its tragic ruination in the most human of ways: the hubris of those in power. Whispering Bisnaga and its citizens into existence, Pampa Kampana attempts to make good on the task that the goddess set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have a way of getting away from their creator, and Bisnaga is no exception. As years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, the very fabric of Bisnaga becomes an ever more complex tapestry--with Pampa Kampana at its center. Brilliantly styled as a translation of an ancient epic, Victory City is a saga of love, adventure, and myth that is in itself a testament to the power of storytelling.

Los versos sat nicos es la novela m s c lebre, iconoclasta y pol mica de Salman Rushdie. Una referencia ineludible de la literatura de nuestro tiempo. Un avi n secuestrado estalla a gran altura sobre el canal de la Mancha. Dos supervivientes caen al mar: Gibrel Farishta, un legendario gal n cinematogr fico, y Saladin Chamcha, el hombre de las mil voces, autodidacta y angl filo furibundo. Consiguen llegar a una playa inglesa y notan unos extra os cambios: uno ha adquirido una aureola y el otro ve con horror c mo crece el vello de sus piernas, los pies se le convierten en cascos y las sienes se abultan... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - " A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths."--Newsday Winner of the Whitbread Prize One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times.

Gibril Farishta är den indiska filmindustrins mest skandalomsusade stjärna. Saladin Chamcha är en berömd röstimitatör. Tillsammans sitter de på ett flygplan på väg till England när planet plötsligt kapas, sprängs och störtar. Som ett mirakel överlever de båda ett fritt fall från tiotusen meters höjd, och knappt har de stigit iland på den engelska kusten förrän de förvandlas till änglar - en god och en ond. I Thatchers England möts de av invandrarhat, polisbrutalitet och gatuvåld, men även av sönderslitande kärlekshistorier och svartsjukedramer. Och kampen mellan gott och ont går vidare, i en värld full av tv-stjärnor, prostituerade, mördare och svindlare. Det är sällan vår tids historia skrivs framför våra ögon. Men utan tvekan är detta fallet med Salman Rushdies Satansverserna.

Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century--including many texts never previously in print--by the Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling authorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Salman Rushdie is celebrated as "a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker), illuminating 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 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 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, whether on the page or in person. He delves deep into the nature of "truth," revels in the vibrant malleability of language and the creative lines that can join art and life, and looks anew at migration, multiculturalism, and censorship. Enlivened on every page by Rushdie's signature wit and dazzling voice, Languages of Truth offers the author's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us on an exhilarating tour of his own exuberant and fearless imagination.

Languages 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 imagination Salman 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.

Ismail Smile (aka Quichotte) er omrejsende sælger i sin fætters medicinalfirma og besat af TV – og så er han den mislykkede spionforfatter Sam DuChamps kreation. I mr. Smiles ensomme liv er hans bil hans hjem og TV’et hans eneste selskab: Indtil han forelsker sig i TV-stjernen miss Salma R. og drager ud for at vinde hendes hjerte. Hans færd byder på et roadtrip gennem nutidens USA, der er hærget af racisme og politiske uroligheder. Undervejs må han kæmpe mod en række udfordringer - og imod sin imaginære søn Sanchos indvendinger mod hans romantiserende og fabulerende verdensbillede. Quichotte er en stort anlagt satirisk pastiche over Cervantes' klassiker og samtidens USA, men også en rørende fortælling om længslen efter kærlighed og familie. Med humor og vid nyfortolker Rushdie en af vestens største litterære bedrifter, Don Quixote, og aktualiserer den for det 21. århundredes læsere. Denne bog er oversat af Nete Harsberg.

I Salman Rushdies nya roman är Quichotte en skapelse av Sam DuChamp, en krisande thrillerförfattare som inspirerats av Cervantes klassiker. Hans Quichotte, en hövlig men förvirrad försäljare av läkemedel, har efter en professionell kris gett sig ut på vägarna tillsammans med sin imaginära son Sancho i hopp att finna sitt livs kärlek, en ouppnåelig tv-stjärna. Men i stället finner de ett trumpifierat USA där galenskapen blivit norm, rasismen och opiaterna florerar och det osannolika blir verkligare för varje dag. Gradvis växer de två berättelserna in i varandra; Sams värld möter Quichottes, och den magi som uppstår är berättandets. Salman Rushdies hyllade omtolkning av Cervantes klassiker är både lekfull och allvarlig. På samma sätt som förlagan gjorde narr av sin tid bjuder Rushdies pikareskroman på en samtidssatir där fakta och fiktion korsas på de mest oväntade sätt. Quichotte har hälsats som en av Salman Rushdies bästa romaner och nominerades bland annat till Booker-priset.

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 an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.

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 an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.

Vaihtoehtoinen totuus amerikkalaisesta unelmasta.” Piristysruiske Amerikan - ei, vaan koko maailman! - kirjallisuudelle... Kreikkalainen tragedia intialaisin juurin ja newyorkilaisin koordinaatein.” - San Francisco ChronicleBarack Obaman virkaanastujaispäivänä mystinen miljardööri Nero Golden muuttaa asumaan New Yorkiin kertoja Renén, nuoren elokuvantekijän naapuriin ja tuo mukanaan aikuiset lapsensa: alkoholisoituneen Petjan, kiihkeän taiteilijan Apun ja salaisuuttaan hautovan kuopuksensa D:n. Pian Neroon iskee kiinni Vasilisa, joka on päättänyt naida rikkaaseen sukuun keinolla millä hyvänsä. Samaan aikaan New Yorkia järisyttää erään sarjakuvamaisen roiston presidentinvaalikampanja. Kultainen talo on kuin moderni Kultahattu, mysteerikertomus ja ajankohtainen tarina rakkaudesta ja terrorismista, jonka hahmokavalkadi on Rushdielle tyypillisen runsas ja kieli säkenöivä. 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.

Kiistelty. Kiitetty. Kielletty. Raivoisan loistelias, tarumainen mestariteos Saatanalliset säkeet ei jätä ketään kylmäksi. Kun lentokone räjähtää pirstaleiksi Englannin kanaalin yllä, mereen putoaa kaksi näyttelijää. Kuin ihmeen kaupalla he selviävät putouksesta hengissä, vaikkakin he yhtäkkiä huomaavat, että Gibreel on saanut itselleen sädekehän ja Saladin taakakseen sarventyngät... Vuosituhannet kattavassa huikeassa kertomuksessa uskontojen synnyt ja siirtolaisuuden ongelmat sekoittuvat unten maailmaan sekä ihmiselämän alituiseen problematiikkaan, rakkauteen ja kuolemaan. Teoksen näyttämönä toimii koko mystinen maailmankaikkeus. 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.