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East, West by Salman Rushdie
$27.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Fury by Salman Rushdie
$27.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Joseph Anton - A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
Joseph Anton : A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India's independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But, this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him wit ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
$27.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
"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. Inextri ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
$24.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 Quichotte is a love story of profound tenderness and humanity from a great storyteller at his brilliant best. Wise, beautifully written, as heartbreaking as it is wildly comic, its characters unforgettable, its plot dazzlingly suspenseful, Quichotte illuminates our ...Show more
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
$59.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Los Angeles, 1991. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is murdered in broad daylight on his illegitimate daughter India's doorstep, slaughtered by a knife wielded by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown. The dead man is a W ...Show more
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
The place is Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar, the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability ...Show more
Shame by Salman Rushdie
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared the symptoms of pregnancy, as they did everything else, inseparably. At their six breasts, Omar was warned against all feelings and nuances of shame. It was training which would prove useful when he left his mothers' fortress (via the dumb-waiter) to face ...Show more