Малик Соланка, историк идей и всемирно известный кукольник, однажды бросает в Лондоне семью и летит через океан, чтобы переплавить в горниле Нью-Йорка безумную, темную ярость, живущую в нем, заглушить голоса злобных фурий. И что же? Ярость повсюду вокруг него.

ISBN: 978-5-367-01790-8
Издательство: Амфора
Дата выхода: март 2011

Уроженец Бомбея, Салман Рушди живет в Великобритании и пишет по-английски. В 2007 году ему даже присвоили титул рыцаря Британской Империи. Славу писателю принес роман "Дети полуночи". Книга получила премии "Букер", "Букер Букеров" и "Супер-Букер" как лучший роман из всех получивших Букеровскую премию за 25 лет; позже она была экранизирована. Детская сказка "Лука и огонь жизни" - продолжение сказочного...

ISBN: 978-5-367-02872-0
Издательство: Амфора
Дата выхода: август 2013

Это история всех — и история каждого, история мира — и история личности, а мир этот по-прежнему полон тайн, и самое невероятное может оказаться правдой. Свет же прошлого, если его направить под верным углом, способен высветить настоящее лучше любого прожектора. Империя Великих Моголов, могущественный Акбар, Флоренция XVI века, с ее философами и художниками, воителями и куртизанками, блистательный ум той...

ISBN: 978-5-367-02835-5
Издательство: Амфора
Дата выхода: июнь 2014

«Гарун и море историй» – тонкая и умная вещь, вобравшая в себя пряный колорит «Тысяча и одной ночи», нежность «Маленького принца» и парадоксальный юмор «Алисы в стране чудес». Роман уже завоевал сердца больших и маленьких читателей по всему миру – за него автор получил награду американской Гильдии Писателей, а в Лондоне и Нью-Йорке с сенсационным успехом идут постановки театральной версии «Гаруна…».

ISBN: 978-5-367-03065-5
Издательство: Амфора
Дата выхода: июнь 2014

Второй роман британского писателя Салмана Рушди «Дети полуночи» принес автору мировую известность – он получил премию «Букер», а после еще дважды становился лауреатом специального приза «Букер Букеров».   Салем Синай появился на свет в полночь 15 августа 1947 года, в день провозглашения независимости Индии. Как и другие «дети полуночи», рожденные в первый час существования нового государства, Салем...

ISBN: 9785171557027
Издательство: АСТ
Дата выхода: март 2023

The multi-million copy number one bestseller with an introduction by Caitlin Moran.A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships?An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family?Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?As Bridget documents her struggles through the social minefield of her thirties and tries to weigh up the eternal question (Daniel Cleaver or Mark Darcy?), she turns for support to four indispensable friends: Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of chardonnay.Welcome to Bridget`s first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive.Bridget Jones`s Diary was first published in 1996 and applauded by critics from Salman Rushdie to Jilly Cooper. A number-one bestseller, Helen...

ISBN: 9781509813889
Дата выхода: март 2023

ISBN: 978-5-5094-4268-1

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In mid-June 2007 Salman Rushdie, British Indian novelist and author of controversial novel The Satanic Verses, was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II. This action brought much controversy around the world in many countries with Muslim majority populations. Soon after the news of the knighthood was released protests against the honour were held in Malaysia and in Pakistan where effigies of the writer were publicly burnt. On 19 June 2007, governments in both Pakistan and Iran summoned their British ambassadors to officially protest against the award. While many groups and individuals have renewed the call to execute Rushdie, the author "is not commenting on the latest threats to his...

ISBN: 978-5-5094-3352-8

In an age where ethics and aesthetics seem to be in constant conflict, Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie express their points of view from the vantage point of a first-person narrator, reflecting upon the turbulences that afflict their postcolonial nations, in the latter half of the twentieth century. Gordimer and Rushdie let their own personal experiences of and sentiments with respect to historical happenings transpire in the unfolding of their narratives. In the ongoing debate between subjective veracity versus historical objectivity, Gordimer and Rushdie’s fiction act as a counter- narrative in the dismemberment of canonical myths and universalisms, thereby putting into service the function of the writer that both believe to be...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-8277-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Following Ayatollah Khomeini`s February 14, 1989 death threat fatwa against author Salman Rushdie, convert to Islam and recording artist Yusuf Islam, previously known as Cat Stevens, made statements that were interpreted as endorsing the killing of Rushdie. This generated a furor among a number of celebrities and free-speech activists in the West who spoke out about his comments on radio stations and newspaper editorials.

ISBN: 978-5-5138-5372-5

Always elegant, terse and full of enthusiam, Tegla shows a remarkable grasp of the complex issues surrounding the dramatization of identity and morality in contemporary narrative. Tim Parks Tegla's study combines a keen eye for narratological detail and generic conventions with a provocative willingness to take sides. Charles I. Armstrong, Professor of British literature at the University of Bergen Despite his many award-winning novels, Tim Parks has received surprisingly scant critical attention by scholars. Ms Tegla's introduction to his novels and her intriguing analysis of identity in Europa amend this deficiency in what might prove a seminal study of a body of literary work that seems to increase in significance by the day. That she...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-4756-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The relationship between literature and politics is often underestimated. Through political essays literary authors comment on the state of the world and consciously intervene in a political discourse which in turn shapes politics. This study examines how Arundhati Roy, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Salman Rushdie and Juli Zeh understand their role as authors, the way they view the interplay between fact and fiction and why they write about the current globalisation process. It does this by comparing and contrasting self-reflexive statements in political essays post 1989 and detailed analysis of one essay by each of these authors. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается...

ISBN: 978-3-6393-1284-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Salman Rushdie is one of the most widely discussed of contemporary writers. However the main scope of discussion is still not his art, but rather the never-ending 'Rushdie affair' around The Satanic Verses. Under the shadow of these scandals he undoubtedly brought wonderful new inventions to the prose of the 20th/21st century. This book, therefore, intends to explore the heterogeneic literary features that manifest in Midnight's Children, his most highly regarded novel. Main focus is on how he is widening the boundaries of the genre by comprising various kinds of novel types into one text. Furthermore the role of memory in storytelling is analysed together with the parallel existence of individual and historical sense of time. Besides...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-7173-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This book investigates the ambivalent space that nations occupy in Salman Rushdie's fiction. Relying on Walter Benjamin, I argue that the structure of the modern nation is split, and whereas this split remains hidden in the discourse of nationalism studies (Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner, etc.), it becomes manifest in Rushdie's postmodern texts. Rushdie's nations, instead of parading as seamless entities, challenge national pedagogies by reinserting a peculiar vision of subjectivity into the discourse of the nation. Located in the context of magic and noise, this subjectivity needs a protective shelter in his novels: in Midnight's Children (the novel about India), Saleem's nose provides a secure place for the disarticulate,...

ISBN: 978-3-6393-1132-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This work proposes a study of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children as a re-reading of John Milton's Paradise Lost. Milton's epic has been read in terms of British imperialism and linked to a tradition of affirmation of nation. Taking up Paradise Lost, Midnight's Children dialogues with the epic's stature of upholder of nationality and suggests that the perception of nation-ness associated to it informs also independent India's national identity. But as its explosive heterogeneity surfaces, Midnight's Children depicts the nation as an imagined community, instead of the stable homogeneity it initially appeared to be. This leads to a questioning of the nation as the privileged space in which to negotiate meanings and identification. At this...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-8402-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The man who was known for years as Shalimar the Clown is now a Kashmiri Muslim terrorist named Noman Sher Noman, who brutally murders Max Ophuls, an American diplomat (and counter-terrorism expert), in Los Angeles in 1991 after his wife, Boonyi, has an affair with Ophuls. This killing sets off the chain of events in Salman Rushdie`s ninth novel. SHALIMAR THE CLOWN follows both Noman and the ambassador into their pasts, finds connections between their lives, details the story of Noman`s wife Boonyi and Ophuls`s daughter India, and provides a sprawling portrait of a very troubled Kashmir in the recent 20th century. Salman Rushdie, no stranger to fanaticism and terrorism, has obviously drawn on the dramatic events of his own life for some...

ISBN: 978-0-8129-7698-4
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Joseph Anton was the alias that Salman Rushdie chose (a combination taken from Conrad and Chekhov) when he was in hiding, after being "sentenced to death" after publication of "The Satanic Verses". On a sunny morning in London in 1989, a few months after the book had been published, a call from a BBC reporter changed his life. "How does it feel to know that you have been sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini?" she asked. With those few words, everything changed for him forever. In his Islington house, Salman Rushdie, understandably, shuttered the windows and locked the door. When he later left for an interview, he had no idea that he would not sit foot in the house again for many This memoir is always totally honest and never less...

ISBN: 978-0-224-09397-2
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012

Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America`s counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. This is the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter - and of a fourth character, the woman who links them, whose story explains them all. The story of a deep love gone fatally...

ISBN: 978-0-09-949809-4
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has fallen into a deep sleep from which no one can wake him. To keep his father from slipping away entirely, Luka must travel to the Magic World and steal the everburning Fire of Life. Thus begins a quest replete with unlikely creatures, strange alliances, and seemingly insurmountable challenges as Luka and an assortment of enchanted companions race through peril after peril, pass through the land of the Badly Behaved Gods, and reach the Fire itself, where Luka`s fate, and that of his father, will be decided. Filled with mischievous wordplay and delving into themes as universal as the power of filial love and the meaning of mortality, Salman Rushdie`s "Luka and the Fire of Life" is a...

ISBN: 978-0-8129-8196-4
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

Vina Aspara, 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.

ISBN: 9780312254995
Дата выхода: март 2000

What do we do when the world`s walls - its family structures, its value-systems, it political forms - crumble? The central character of this novel, `Moor` Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family, finds himself

ISBN: 978-0-09-959241-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Just before dawn one winter`s morning, a hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Through the debris of limbs, drinks trolleys, memories, blankets, and oxygen masks, two figures fall towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India`s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Clinging to each other, singing rival songs, they plunge downward, and are finally washed up, alive, on the snow-covered sands of an English beach. Their survival is a miracle, but an ambiguous one. Gibreel acquires a halo, while, to his dismay, Saladin`s legs grow hairier, his feet turn into hooves, and hornlike appendages appear at his temples. Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen (by whom?) as opponents in the eternal...

ISBN: 978-0-9632707-0-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Like all children about to set off on an adventure, Luka Khalifa is a special kid. For one thing, his father is the famed storyteller Rashid Khalifa, "the Shah of Blah", "the Ocean of Notions". For another, Luka`s

ISBN: 978-0-09-955532-2
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

ISBN: 978-0-09-953256-9
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

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.

ISBN: 978-0-09-951189-2
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011