Bøger af Salman Rushdie

Gibreel og Saladin er udvalgt til hovedpersoner i den evige kamp mellem godt og ondt. Men hvem er egentlig hvem? Kontroversiel roman om racesammenstød og religionsstiftelse.

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.

Fortællingen om ejendomsmatadoren Nero Golden og hans familie, der under mystiske omstændigheder ankommer til USA fra Indien umiddelbart inden Barack Obamas indsættelse. Golden og hans sønner bosætter sig i et stort palæ på Manhattan og får hurtigt etableret sig i de indflydelsesrige kredse i New York, hvor de med hver deres ejendommelige væremåde vækker opmærksomhed. Historien om Nero-familiens storhed og fald får vi fra naboen og vennen René, en aspirerende filminstruktør, der i Golden-familien har fundet sin historie bestående af en kulørt fortælling, der involverer kunst og mode, familieintriger, uventede forvandlinger, smukke kvinder, svig og mord. Det gyldne hus er en aktuel roman fra Trumps USA om sandheder og løgne, om identitet og om frygt, rædsel og løgne.

På et magisk tidspunkt, præcis på slaget tolv den 15. august 1947, bliver Saleem Sinai født. I samme sekund frigør Indien sig fra Englands herredømme. I den første time efter landets (gen-)fødsel kommer 1001 midnatsbørn til verden, og under sin mildt sagt brogede opvækst er Saleem i telepatisk kontakt med dem alle. Han fortæller om sin familie og sit eget eventyrlige liv - set i lyset af Indiens voldsomme historie.

Ismail Smile (aka Quichotte) er omrejsende sælger i sin fætters medicinalfirma og besat af TV – og så er han den mislykkede spionforfatter Sam DuChamps kreation. I mr. Smiles ensomme liv er hans bil hans hjem og TV’et hans eneste selskab: Indtil han forelsker sig i TV-stjernen miss Salma R. og drager ud for at vinde hendes hjerte. Hans færd byder på et roadtrip gennem nutidens USA, der er hærget af racisme og politiske uroligheder. Undervejs må han kæmpe mod en række udfordringer - og imod sin imaginære søn Sanchos indvendinger mod hans romantiserende og fabulerende verdensbillede. Quichotte er en stort anlagt satirisk pastiche over Cervantes' klassiker og samtidens USA, men også en rørende fortælling om længslen efter kærlighed og familie. Med humor og vid nyfortolker Rushdie en af vestens største litterære bedrifter, Don Quixote, og aktualiserer den for det 21. århundredes læsere.

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.

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."

Den 12. august 2022 befandt Salman Rushdie sig på en scene i byen Chautauqua i Upstate New York, hvor han skulle holde foredrag om forfatteres sikkerhed. En sortklædt mand kom springende fra salen og gik koldblodigt til angreb på Rushdie med en kniv. Han stak ham overalt, han kunne komme til, 15 steder – stikket i det højre øje gik så langt ind, at det skar den optiske nerve over og var millimeter fra hjernen, millimeter fra at slå ham ihjel. KNIV ligner ikke noget Salman Rushdie har skrevet tidligere. Han skriver mere personligt end nogensinde. Og han pakker intet ind. Det er et råt dokument, og det gør indtryk. Bogen er selvbiografisk. Rushdie fortæller om sin barndom, sin familie, sin alkoholiserede far, sine børn og sin kone – og om det had, han oplevede, efter han skrev de Sataniske vers og de ti år, han levede mere eller mindre under jorden i England. Han fortæller også meget direkte om, hvordan flere ikke støttede op om ham på det tidspunkt og mente, han selv var skyld i sin situation – Jimmy Carter og Germaine Greer fx – det nager ham stadig. I 2000 flyttede han til New York og insisterede på at leve en fri tilværelse. KNIV handler om ytringsfrihed og Salman Rushdies insisteren på at leve i frihed, og den handler om at komme igennem en frygtelig begivenhed. Bogen er et stærkt dokument, fuldstændig ublufærdigt. Det er velskrevet og interessant læsning.

Historien om byen Bisnaga begynder i trettenhundredetallet i det sydlige Indien, hvor en blind kvinde, mirakelmageren, profeten og digteren Pampa Kampana, har færdiggjort sit enorme epos om byen, forseglet det i en lerpotte og gravet det ned. Fire et halvt århundrede efter bliver det fundet, og romanen om Bisnaga – Sejrens by kan fortælles.Den historie begynder, da alle mændene i den niårige Pampa Kampanas landsby er blevet dræbt i et ligegyldigt slag, og den lille pige magtesløs må se til, mens hendes mor, og alle de kvinder hun kender, træder syngende ind i deres mænds ligbål og lader sig brænde op. Kort efter oplever den sønderknuste pige et guddommeligt møde, der vil ændre historiens gang. Hun bliver en mægtig gudindes redskab og påtager sig derved en gigantisk opgave: at give kvinder magt, rettigheder og selvbestemmelse i et patriarkalsk samfund.

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.

**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.

«Sentí la necesidad de escribir este libro: una forma de procesar lo sucedido y de responder a la violencia con el arte». El 12 de agosto de 2022, treinta años después de la fetua decretada contra él por el ayatolá Jomeini, un joven se abalanzó sobre Salman Rushdie para acuchillarle sin piedad. Cuchillo es una meditación poderosa, profundamente personal y, en última instancia, consoladora sobre la vida, la pérdida, el amor, el arte... y sobre cómo reunir la fuerza necesaria para volver a ponerse en pie. «Debemos proteger a toda costa a Rushdie. Proteger a Rushdie es proteger la alegría, la risa, las ganas de vivir. Proteger a Rushdie es proteger la civilización. -Javier Cercas». ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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.

"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."--

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.

A moving and life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from internationally renowned writer Salman Rushdie'A story of hatred defeated by love' Guardian'Absolutely stunning...the ugliest thing turned into the most beautiful' Nigella Lawson'Part thriller, part love story' The Times'A masterpiece... full of Rushdie's wit, his wisdom, his stoicism, his optimism' The TelegraphOn the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black - black clothes, black mask - rushed down the aisle towards him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it's you. Here you are.What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the world. Now, for the first time, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey towards physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide.Knife is Rushdie writing with urgency, gravity, and unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature's capacity to make sense of the unthinkable.This an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art - and finding the strength to stand up again.

"Salman Rushdie es câelebre por la mirada lâucida, y a menudo mordaz, con que analiza aspectos claves de nuestra sociedad y nuestra cultura. En este volumen reâune reflexiones en las que explora su relaciâon con la palabra escrita al tiempo que ahonda en grandes cuestiones universales como la migraciâon y el multiculturalismo, la libertad de expresiâon o la censura. En Los lenguajes de la verdad se materializa el compromiso intelectual del autor con un periodo de cambio cultural trascendental. Esta colecciâon de ensayos, escritos durante diecisiete aänos y reunidos por primera vez, constata que tanto la bâusqueda de la verdad como nuestra necesidad de interpretar y explicar el mundo siguen siendo una parte indisoluble de la naturaleza humana." --Amazon.com.

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries--from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie. In the wake of an unimportant 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 her namesake, the goddess Pampa, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga--"victory city"--the wonder of the world. Over the next 250 years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga's, from its literal sowing from a bag of magic seeds to its tragic ruination in the most human of ways: the hubris of those in power. Whispering Bisnaga and its citizens into existence, Pampa Kampana 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. As years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, the very fabric of Bisnaga becomes an ever more complex tapestry--with Pampa Kampana at its center. Brilliantly narrated in the style of an ancient epic, Victory City is a saga of love, adventure, and myth that is in itself a testament to the power of storytelling.

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***

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