Bøker av 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.

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.

I Kniv skriver Rushdie for første gang, og i rystende detaljrikdom, om de traumatiske hendelsene 12. august 2022, da han ble forsøkt drept under en scenesamtale i Chautauqua County i New York State, over 30 år etter fatwaen som ble utstedt mot ham i kjølvannet av romanen Sataniske vers (1988).Kniv er en kraftfull, svært personlig og til syvende og sist oppløftende skildring av tap, kjærlighet og kunstens kraft. Det er også en fortelling om å finne styrken til å fortsette - og til å reise seg igjen.

Det sørlige India i det trettende århundret. Etter å ha sett moren sin dø, opplever den ni år gammel Pampa Kampana et møte med det guddommelige. Hun blir gudinnens talerør på jorda, og tar samtidig på seg en monumental oppgave: Å gi kvinner makt i et patriarkalsk samfunn. Hun blir grunnleggeren av Bisnaga - «seiersbyen», et underverk på jorda og snart midtpunktet i et mektig rike. I de 250 årene som følger ser Pampa herskere komme og gå, allianser bli inngått og brutt. Hun holder fast på sin egen oppgave, men hvilken makt er det mulig å øve mot menneskelig vanvidd?

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art - and finding the strength to stand up again.

She will whisper an empire into existence - but all stories have a way of getting away from their creatorIn the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga - literally 'victory city' - the wonder of the world.Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga's as she attempts to make good on the task that Parvati set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have a way of getting away from their creator, and as years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, Bisnaga is no exception."e;No one, and I mean no one, can bring an entire world to life with the authority, wisdom, humor and panache of Salman Rushdie."e; Gary Shteyngart

She will breathe a new empire into life - but all worlds can escape their creator...'Full of adventure... A celebration of the power of storytelling' GUARDIANIn the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga, 'victory city'.Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga's as she attempts to make good on the task that the goddess set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have a way of getting away from their creator, and Bisnaga is no exception.'Mesmerising' ELIF SHAFAK, author of The Island of Missing Trees'A total pleasure to read' SUNDAY TIMES'One of the planet's greatest writers' EVENING STANDARD'A triumph... Enthralling' I***A FINANCIAL TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR******A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK***

Samme dag som Barack Obama blir tatt i ed som USAs 44. president, kommer en mystisk milliardær til Greenwich Willage i New York. Naboene blir umiddelbart fascinert av den eksentriske nykommeren og de tre sønnene hans. Nero Golden blir sammen med sin familie et betydelig men gåtefullt maktsentrum i hovedstaden. Hvem er han, og hva vil han?

En roman om India, om kjærlighet og død, fødsler og krig. Midnattsbarna er de barn som ble født i den første timen av Indias uavhengighet, midnatt 15. august 1947. Disse barna, i alt 1001, ble feiret som symbol på den nyfødte nasjonen, og de ble tillagt overnaturlige evner. To barn ble født på selve tolvslaget: Shiva som blir uovervinnelig i krig og Saleem som kan se inn i menneskers hjerte og tanker. Saleem utkåres til Indias første barn og får et brev fra Nehru: "Vi kommer til å følge ditt liv med den største oppmersomhet, det kommer på sett og vis til å bli et speilbilde av vårt eget."

Sataniske vers er en bok på flere plan. Gjennom en syklus av særegne og fantastiske historier stilles vi overfor det absurde ved å leve mellom to kulturer, kampen mellom det gode og det onde, tvil og tro, liv og død, forholdet mellom religion, makt og avmakt. Forfatteren lar drømmer, fabler begivenheter, visjoner og refleksjoner, gale påfunn og et mangfold av skikkelser myldre ut over sidene, og fletter det hele sammen.

En roman om India, om kjærlighet og død, fødsler og krig. Midnattsbarna er de barn som ble født i den første timen av Indias uavhengighet, midnatt 15. august 1947. Disse barna, i alt 1001, ble feiret som symbol på den nyfødte nasjonen, og de ble tillagt overnaturlige evner. To barn ble født på selve tolvslaget: Shiva som blir uovervinnelig i krig og Saleem som kan se inn i menneskers hjerte og tanker. Saleem utkåres til Indias første barn og får et brev fra Nehru: "Vi kommer til å følge ditt liv med den største oppmersomhet, det kommer på sett og vis til å bli et speilbilde av vårt eget."

'Radio drama of the year' - Gillian Reynolds, The TelegraphNikesh Patel stars as Saleem in BBC Radio 4's epic dramatisation of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel of love, history and magicSaleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations. From that moment on, his fate is mysteriously handcuffed to the history of his country. But Saleem's story starts almost thirty years earlier, when his grandfather, Dr Aadam Aziz, falls in love with a woman concealed behind a perforated sheet. That pivotal moment in Kashmir in 1919 sparks a series of bizarre events that will lead to a cryptic prophecy and the birth of a boy with an extraordinary destiny. As a 'Midnight's Child', Saleem has magical powers, and can telepathically tune in to all the other gifted children whose birth coincided with India's division. However, his strange entanglement with the fate of India will have dramatic repercussions for both him and his country... Adapted by Ayeesha Menon, this dazzling dramatisation of Rushdie's many-layered, magical realist masterpiece is both an enthralling family saga and a riveting history of post-colonialism. First broadcast to mark the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India, it features Nikesh Patel as Saleem, with a star cast including Abhin Galeya, Meera Syal, Anneika Rose and Narinder Samra. Also included is an interview with Salman Rushdie, in which the author talks to radio drama director Emma Harding about his multi-award winning novel. Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981, and was subsequently awarded the 'Booker of Bookers' prize in 1993 and 'The Best of the Booker' prize in 2008.

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.

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdies phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is not quite Pakistan. In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two menone a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasureRushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliationshamelessness, shame: the roots of violence. Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.

When a Jumbo jet blows apart above the English Channel, Gabreel and Saladin miraculously survive and are washed up on a beach. However, it appears that curious changes have come over them and that they have been chosen as protagonists in the eternal wrestling match between God and the Devil.

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.

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.