"Straciłem już rachubę, nie wiem, ile dni minęło, odkąd uciekłem od okropności tej szalonej fortecy Vasco Mirandy w wiosce Benengeli w górach andaluzyjskich; pod osłoną mroku uszedłem śmierci, zostawiwszy kartkę przybitą do drzwi." Piąta powieść Rushdiego, następna po "Szatańskich wersetach", to s...
It's Rushdie so the writing is wonderful. And quite frankly, the ending is stunning.However, there seems to be a tad too much joy in the descriptions of older men having sex with younger women who are so overwhelmed by the handsomeness of said older men.And no, the whole backstory does not make the ...
A great, masterfully told, timely book. Supposedly this book was Rushdie's commentary on the Obama years. While it didn't have a lot to do with presidential politics, it certainly brought the feelings of being alive and online 2009-2015. Mostly, though, this was a complexly plotted, intricate st...
I've been hesitant to read this one, because I heard that it doesn't quite live up to the legend surrounding it. In case you don't remember the hoopla about this book, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy should get you up to speed. I also read Joseph Anton before I read ...
One of Rushdie's best. Somehow managing to span continents and worlds in the way that only Rushdie can do, our character Shalimar the Clown manages to learn dying kashmiri folk art, mujahdeen terrorism, how to join a prison gang, and how to drive a deLorean. Complex and interwoven, it manages to...
Salman rushdie-- dense, funny, lyrical. There were many places I laughed out loud. "This is just like Gozer the Gozarian..." ...so why wasn't this book better? It seems like Rushdie spent the first two-thirds of the book setting up this fun world, with these bizarre coincidences, wordplay, allusio...
Delightful, bite-sized Rushdie. I would even recommend starting here, or with Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Nine short stories told by Master Storyteller Salman Rushdie. Rushdie takes us to the dusty streets of Bombay (or wherever), to Shakespearean England, Rennaissance Spain, and magical fu...
A man of extreme wealth immigrates from Mumbai to Manhattan along with his three adult sons. They change their identities and keep the reason for leaving their previous home a mystery though they don't live like recluses, just the opposite, they embrace their new homeland with excess and extravaganc...
I had never read a Salman Rushdie book before, but I had heard of him and what a good writer he was. So. . . I was pretty excited when I requested and received this book. That excitement lasted until I started reading it. It was just so tedious. And, yawn. . . boring.There were numerous times when t...
This is some serious, epic Greek tragedy. At its heart is the question of “Can a man be both good and evil?” and yet it is also about the role of the storyteller and the unmasking of America. As always, his wordplay is a twisty, tangled delight, filled with a myriad of literary and cinematic referen...
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