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Shalimar the Clown

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 418

'Rushdie's most engaging book since Midnight's Children' Observer Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home of Kashmir. But fate has played him cruelly, torn him away from his beloved home and brought him to Los Angeles, where he works as a chauffeur. One morning he gets up, goes to work, and kills his employer, America's former counter-terrorist chief Maximilian Ophuls, in view of the victim's illegitimate daughter, India. The killing has its roots halfway across the globe, back in Kashmir, a ruined paradise not so much lost as shattered. And gradually it emerges that beyond this unholy trinity of Max, India and Shalimar, lurks a fourth, shadowy figure, one who binds them all together. 'This is Rushdie at his most flamboyant best' Financial Times

Shame

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 290

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's unforgettable 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

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 152

The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course.

Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 0

Discours sur les "versets sataniques," ou, Lettre ouverte aux occidentaux et autres ennemis de l'Islam

Auteure: Amadou Moustapha Wade

Nombre de pages: 56

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Auteure: Pradip Kumar Dey

Nombre de pages: 180

1. Salman Rushdie Life, Works and Achievements 2. A Detailed Chapterwise Critical Analysis 3. Major Themes and Issues 4. Art of Characterization 5. Major Characters 6. Minor Characters 7. Narrative Techniques 8. Style, Trope and Symbol 9. Critical Reception of Midnight s Children 10. Some Model Questions Select Bibliography Index

Haroun and The Sea Of Stories

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 224

In a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name, lived a professional storyteller named Rashid and his son Haroun.' Thus begins Rushdie's magical and delightful book, which is comprised of hundreds of stories, funny and sad, all of them juggled at once, together with sorcery and love, wicked uncles and fat aunts, and mustachioed gangsters in yellow check pants.

Salman Rushdie (ELL).

The Moor's Last Sigh

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 612

In his first novel since The Satanic Verses, Rushdie gives readers a masterpiece of controlled storytelling, informed by astonishing scope and ambition, by turns compassionate, wicked, poignant, and funny. From the paradise of Aurora's legendary salon to his omnipotent father's sky-garden atop a towering glass high-rise, the Moor's story evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes in a world of possibilities embodied by India in this century.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 592

From the world renowned author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes Salman Rushdie's brilliant novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, featuring an epic, exuberant love story with a rock 'n' roll soundtrack. At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale. Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear...

Haroun Aur Sagar Kisson Ka

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 76

This is translated from English book Haroun and the Sea of Stories written by Salman Rushdie. What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true? I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can’t tell stories anymore. That means no more laughter in the city of Alifbay and now the place stinks of sadness. So it’s up to me to put things right. If the water genie Iff can take me on the Hoopoe bird Butt all the way to Gup City then maybe, just maybe, I’ll be able to persuade the Grand Comptroller to give my father his Story Water supply back. Trouble is, that is strictly forbidden, one hundred percent banned, no way Jose territory...

The Perforated Sheet

Auteure: Uma Parameswaran

Nombre de pages: 110

Victory City

Auteure: Salman. Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 0

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

Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-one Nights

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 308

In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub-Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayor’s office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining. Unbeknownst to them, they are all the descendants of the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as jinns, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal of reason. Together, they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world. Once the line between the worlds is breached on a grand scale, Dunia’s children and others will play a role in an epic war between light and dark, spanning a thousand and one nights—or two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights. It is a time of enormous upheaval, where beliefs are challenged, words act like poison,...

Shalimar the Clown

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Auteure: Meenu Gupta

Nombre de pages: 239

Critical and comprehensive study of the history-fiction nexus in the works of Salman Rushdie, b. 1947, Indo-English novelist.

Midnight's Children

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 472

"Rushdie examines India's contemporary history by following the lives of the 1,001 fictional children born in the first hour of the country's independence from Great Britain on Aug. 15, 1947."--Website.

The Golden House

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 368

From the winner of the Booker of Bookers, a modern epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from Bombay takes up residence in a cloistered community in New York’s Greenwich Village. Along with his improbable name, untraceable accent and the unmistakable whiff of danger, Nero Golden has brought along his three adult sons: agoraphobic, alcoholic Petya; Apu, the flamboyant artist; and D, who harbours an explosive secret even from himself. The story of the powerful Golden family is told from the point of view of their neighbour and confidant, René, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. René chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in India, the unravelling of an insidious plot. Copiously detailed, sumptuously inventive, brimming with all the razzle-dazzle that imbues his fiction with the lush ambience of a fable, The Golden House is about where we were before 26/11, where we are today and how...

The Satanic Verses

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 561

In this great wheel of a book, where the past and the future chase each other furiously, Salman Rushdie takes readers on an epic journey of tears and laughter, of bewitching stories and astonishing flights of the imagination, a journey toward the evil and good that lie entwined within the hearts of women and men.

Booker Prize winners

Auteure: Rajinder Kumar Dhawan

Nombre de pages: 0

Contributed articles on Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children, Arundhati Roy's The god of small things, Kiran Desai's The inheritance of loss and Aravind Adiga's The white tiger.

Midnight's Children

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Quichotte

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 525

East, West

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

A rickshaw driver dreams of being a Bombay movie star; Indian diplomats, who as childhood friends hatched Star Trek fantasies, must boldly go into a hidden universe of conspiracy and violence; and Hamlet's jester is caught up in murderous intrigues. In Rushdie's hybrid world, an Indian guru can be a redheaded Welshman, while Christopher Columbus is an immigrant, dreaming of Western glory. Rushdie allows himself, like his characters, to be pulled now in one direction, then in another. Yet he remains a writer who insists on our cultural complexity; who, rising beyond ideology, refuses to choose between East and West and embraces the world.

Fury

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 0

When a former Cambridge philosophy professor, originally from Bombay, flees to New York after the murder of his wife, he discovers a city roiling with anger even though it is the highest hour of America's wealth and power.

Novel as History

Auteure: Nila Shah

Nombre de pages: 188

Study on the works of some of the major post-independent writers and their preoccupation with history.

Shame

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 287

In his extraordinary third novel, first published in 1983, Salman Rushdie gives readers a colorful, complex fantasy of history, art, language, politics, and religion. Set in a country not quite Pakistan, the story centers around the families of two men engaged in a protracted duel that is played out in the political life of their country.

Joseph Anton : a Memoir

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 636

Clownen Shalimar

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 455

Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"

Auteure: Tapan Kumar Ghosh (ph. D.)

Nombre de pages: 287

This Volume Throws Fresh Light On `Midnight`S Children` And Is Thus A Useful Addition To The Growing Corpus Of Rushdie Criticism.

Midnight's Children Fragment

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 0

Text consists of the first paragraph of the novel Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie, copied out by the author; probably produced for sale or promotional purposes.

Shalimar de clown

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 431

De dood van een voormalige Amerikaanse ambassadeur in India lijkt op een politieke moord, maar blijkt persoonlijke wortels te hebben in de geschiedenis van het decennialang tussen India en Pakistan ingeklemde Kashmir.

Joseph Anton

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 656

Salman Rushdies Midnights Children

Auteure: Reena Mitra

Nombre de pages: 192

Salman Rushdie S Midnight S Children, Ever Since Its Publication In 1980, Has Been Considered An Ingenious Piece Of Literary Art And A Trendsetter In The Field Of Indian Fiction In English. The Stupendous Success Of This Novel Broke All Previous Records And Rushdie Was Hailed As One Who Engendered A Whole New Generation Of Fiction Writers That Embraced Magical Realism As A Mode For The Depiction Of History. The Variant Mode Of The Portrayal Of Historical Reality That Rushdie Adopts In Midnight S Children Is Characteristically His Own And His Fantasizing Of Facts In This Novel Inspired A Host Of Other Writers To Offer, In Their Respective Works, Their Own Blends Of Fact And Fiction. Midnight S Children Is A Multi-Faceted Novel Which Lends Itself To Analysis From Various Angles And Perspectives. Be It From The Point Of View Of Structure Or Content, The Work Yields A Richness That Has Been Variously Explored By The Scholars Who Have Contributed To This Anthology Of Essays On It.

Shalimar le clown : [roman]

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 443

Est, Ouest

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 130

Dans les contes de fées de Rushdie, l’Est rencontre l’Ouest, la légende s’allie au réalisme, la parodie se mêle au merveilleux. Truculents ou émouvants, ses personnages sont toujours imprévisibles. Un voleur offre à ses fils un moyen de subsistance en les estropiant. Et eux de protester quand un miracle les délivre de leur infirmité. Un usurier tyrannique trouve une relique ; il voit sa maison devenir un charnier. Et que penser de la belle Miss Rehana, heureuse de ne pas obtenir un visa pour l’Angleterre ? Salman Rushdie sait se faire tendre pour évoquer une petite fille nommée Scheherazade ou l’amour de Mecir, portier émigré d’Europe de l’Est, pour Aya, une minuscule Indienne de soixante ans... Il lui fait la cour et elle, dans son décor londonien, se laisse courtiser, telle une ingénue avec anglaises et éventails...

Quichotte

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 443

Quichotte, un représentant de commerce vieillissant obsédé par le “réel irréel” de la télévision, tombe éperdument amoureux d’une reine du petit écran et s’embarque, à travers les routes d’Amérique, dans une quête picaresque pour lui prouver qu’il est digne de sa main. À ses côtés sur le siège passager, Sancho, son fils imaginaire. Ce roman d’une ampleur phénoménale raconte l’histoire d’une époque déréglée – “l’Ère du Tout Peut Arriver” – et brasse dans son sillage des thèmes aussi divers que les relations père-fils, les querelles frère-sœur autour d’actes impardonnables, le racisme, la crise des opiacés, les cyber-espions, la science-fiction, l’histoire de l’Auteur qui a créé Quichotte, et la fin du monde. Exubérant, drolatique et terriblement intelligent, Quichotte est une bombe littéraire sur fond d’apocalypse.

Les versets sataniques

Auteure: Salman Rushdie

Nombre de pages: 545

Un jumbo jet explose au-dessus de la Manche. Au milieu de membres humains éparpillés et d’objets non identifiés, deux silhouettes improbables tombent du ciel : Gibreel Farishta, le légendaire acteur indien, et Saladin Chamcha, l’Homme aux Mille Voix. Agrippés l’un à l’autre, ils atterrissent sains et saufs sur une plage anglaise enneigée. Gibreel et Saladin ont été choisis pour être les protagonistes de la lutte éternelle entre le Bien et le Mal. Mais par qui ? Les anges sont-ils des diables déguisés ? Tandis que les deux hommes rebondissent du passé au présent, se déroule un cycle extraordinaire de contes d’amour et de passion, de trahison et de foi avec, au centre, l’histoire de Mahound, prophète de Jahilia, la cité de sable – Mahound, frappé par une révélation où les versets sataniques se mêlent au divin. Salman Rushdie nous embarque dans une épopée truculente, un voyage de larmes et de rires au pays du Bien et du Mal, si inséparablement liés dans le cœur des hommes.