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East, West by Salman Rushdie
$28.00 NZD
Category: 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
Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
$16.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, th ...Show more
Fury by Salman Rushdie
$26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Fury" is a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since, the Bombay of "Midnight's Children" have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel. "Fury" opens on a New York living at br ...Show more
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
$15.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Haroun's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie ...Show more
Imaginary Homelands : Essays and criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie
$30.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
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. With candour, eloquence and indignation he carefully examines an expans ...Show more
Joseph Anton : A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being 'against ...Show more
Joseph Anton - A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$40.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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 traumati ...Show more
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
$39.00 NZD
Category: Sarah Bestsellers
Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imagination. Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our soci ...Show more
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 NZD
Category: 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
$12.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
