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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsImaginary Homelandsby Salman Rushdie
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Rushdie at his most candid, impassioned, and incisive--an important and moving record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. These 75 essays demonstrate Rushdie's range and prophetic vision, as he focuses on his fellow writers, on films, and on the mine-strewn ground of race, politics and religion.
Synopsis:Containing 74 essays, this book covers a range of subjects including the literature of the perceived masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries, the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture, film, politicians, the Labour Party, racial prejudice and the preciousness of free expression.
About the AuthorBorn in Bombay in 1947, Salman Rushdie is the author of six novels, including Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and a volume of essays, Imaginary Homelands. His numerous literary prizes include the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children and the Whitbread Prize for The Satanic Verses. Table of ContentsImaginary Homelands Introduction 1 Imaginary Homelands "Errata": Or, Unreliable Narration in Midnight's Children The Riddle of Midnight: India, August 1987 2 Censorship The Assassination of Indira Gandhi Dynasty Zia ul-Haq. 17 August 1988 Daughter of the East 3 "Commonwealth Literature" Does Not Exist Anita Desai Kipling Hobson-Jobson 4 Outside the Whale Attenborough's Gandhi Satyajit Ray Handsworth Songs The Location of Brazil 5 The New Empire within Britain An Unimportant Fire Home Front V. S. Naipaul The Painter and the Pest 6 A General Election Charter 88 On Palestinian Identity: A Conversation with Edward Said 7 Nadine Gordimer Rian Malan Nuruddin Farah Kapuscinski's Angola 8 John Berger Graham Greene John le Carre On Adventure At the Adelaide Festival Travelling with Chatwin Chatwin's Travels Julian Barnes Kazuo Ishiguro
9 Michel Tournier Italo Calvino Stephen Hawking Andrei Sakharov Umberto Eco Gunter Grass Heinrich Boll Siegfried Lenz Peter Schneider Christoph Ransmayr Maurice Sendak and Wilhelm Grimm 10 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Mario Vargas Llosa 11 The Language of the Pack Debrett Goes to Hollywood E. L. Doctorow Michael Herr: An Interview Richard Ford Raymond Carver Isaac Bashevis Singer Philip Roth Saul Bellow Thomas Pynchon Kurt Vonnegut Grace Paley Travels with a Golden Ass The Divine Supermarket 12 Naipaul Among the Believers "In God We Trust" In Good Faith Is Nothing Sacred? One Thousand Days in a Balloon What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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