Satanic Verses, Rushdie, Salman

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 13:39:03 +0000

No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta («for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies») and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie’s powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.

Midnight’s Children

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 07:51:26 +0000

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India’s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other ‘Midnight’s Children’ all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem’s story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.Салим Синай, родившийся ровно в полночь, в самый момент обретения Индией независимости, — особенный ребенок. Однако это совпадение рождения имеет последствия, к которым он не готов: телепатические способности связывают его с 1000 другими «Детьми Полуночи», все из которых наделены необычными дарами. Неразрывно связанная со своей нацией, история Салима — это вихрь катастроф и триумфов, отражающий ход современной Индии в ее самых невероятных и славных проявлениях.Книга на английской языке.

Rushdie, Salman — Knigausa Bookstore: Russian Books

Satanic Verses, Rushdie, Salman

Midnight’s Children