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East, West by Salman Rushdie
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters home describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties Londo ...Show more
Joseph Anton - A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize in 1993, comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that woul ...Show more
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
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. Inextr ...Show more
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
The place is Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death 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 ...Show more
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Los Angeles, 1991. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is murdered in broad daylight on his illegitimate daughter India's doorstep, slaughtered by a knife wielded by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown. The dead man is a W ...Show more
Shame by Salman Rushdie
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric 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 th ...Show more
Shame by Salman Rushdie
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared the symptoms of pregnancy, as they did everything else, inseparably. At their six breasts, Omar was warned against all feelings and nuances of shame. It was training which would prove useful when he left his mothers' fortress (via the dumb-waiter) to face ...Show more
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
'The first great rock 'n' roll novel in the English language' The TimesOn Valentine's Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake.Her lover, the singer Ormus Cama, cannot accept that he has lost her, and so begins his eternal quest to find her and bring ...Show more
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
This book is narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a grave in Spain. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rushdie because of the death sentence that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor because he ages at twice the rate of normal humans. Mora ...Show more
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
What do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems - crumble? The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family, finds himself in such a moment of crisis. His mother, an emotional despot, worships beauty, but Moor is ...Show more
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
An epic tale with a message for us all: our power is fleeting, but our stories last forever. This is Salman Rushdie at his best. A magical realist feminist tale in an historical setting that will stay with you long after you turn the final page. The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire ...Show more
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