Books by Salman Rushdie

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices.

The screenplay of Rushdie's 1993 Booker of Bookers winner. Born at the midnight of India's independence, Saleem is "handcuffed to history" by the coincidence. He is one of 1001 children born that midnight, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent.

Fortællingen om ejendomsmatadoren Nero Golden og hans familie, der under mystiske omstændigheder ankommer til USA fra Indien umiddelbart inden Barack Obamas indsættelse. Golden og hans sønner bosætter sig i et stort palæ på Manhattan og får hurtigt etableret sig i de indflydelsesrige kredse i New York, hvor de med hver deres ejendommelige væremåde vækker opmærksomhed. Historien om Nero-familiens storhed og fald får vi fra naboen og vennen René, en aspirerende filminstruktør, der i Golden-familien har fundet sin historie bestående af en kulørt fortælling, der involverer kunst og mode, familieintriger, uventede forvandlinger, smukke kvinder, svig og mord. Det gyldne hus er en aktuel roman fra Trumps USA om sandheder og løgne, om identitet og om frygt, rædsel og løgne.

On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence. This book offers an account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade.

**New York Times bestseller**A Guardian / Observer Book of the YearWhen powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan.

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.

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.

A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted.

Gibreel og Saladin er udvalgt til hovedpersoner i den evige kamp mellem godt og ondt. Men hvem er egentlig hvem? Kontroversiel roman om racesammenstød og religionsstiftelse.

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.

A self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', the author explores the true meaning of home. He looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of memory and what happens when East meets West.

A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.

Haroun: 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.

Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers.

When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He calls himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, and claims to be the son of a lost princess, whose name and has been erased from the country's history: Qara Koz.

IMAGINEyou are Luka, a twelve-year-old boy who has to save the life of the storyteller father you adore. IMAGINEyou have two loyal companions by your side: a bear called Dog who can sing and a dog called Bear who can dance.

Despite the political overtones, it soon emerges that this is a murder with a much darker heart to it. The killing has its roots halfway across the globe, back in Kashmir, a ruined paradise not so much lost as shattered.

An astounding, intense novel by the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight's Children. In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. And so he steps out of his life once again and begins a new one in New York. But New York is a city boiling with fury.

A family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.

'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.

The book ends with the lectures that give it its title - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live.

But after 777 years of sailing the world's seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island, a place where his fellow immortals have gathered and created their own version of the human race. But Calf Island is a strange place - like its inhabitants, it is both blessed and cursed.

This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. With one foot in the East and one foot in the West, this collection reveals the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between the two.