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.
Biography
After winning the prestigious Booker Prize for his second novel, Midnight Children, Salman Rushdie was honored by Booker twelve years later, when the same book was chosen as the best winner in the award first quarter century. But much of Rushdie's career has been clouded by a threatened death sentence from Iran for his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses.
Biography
After winning the prestigious Booker Prize for his second novel, Midnight Children, Salman Rushdie was honored by Booker twelve years later, when the same book was chosen as the best winner in the award first quarter century. But much of Rushdie's career has been clouded by a threatened death sentence from Iran for his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses.