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In the imperial capital of the Mughal Empire, a traveler arrives at the court of Emperor Akbar. The traveler, Mogor dell'Amore, has a tale to tell, and as the words flow out of him, the tale's rich tapestry of power and desire begins to take on a life of its own.

On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism. No one has captured Ali—and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated—with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick.

Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.

A raíz de una insignificante batalla entre dos reinos anclados en el olvido de la India del siglo XIV, una niña de nueve años tieneun inesperado encuentro que cambiará el curso de la historia. Tras presenciar la muerte de su madre, la niña, Pampa Kampana, seconvierteen receptáculo de una diosa que empieza a hablar por su boca. La diosa le otorga poderes que escapan a la comprensión de PampaKampana y le confía que vaaser fundamental en la erección de una gran ciudad llamada Bisnaga, literalmente “ciudad de la victoria”, la maravilla del mundo.

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is "not quite Pakistan". In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men - one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure - Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation.

On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of “the Gardens,” a cloistered community in New York’s Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, and a brilliant remaking of the Orpheus myth. Rushdie is also the author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.

Salman Rushdie is celebrated as “a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker), illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time.

When Maximilian Ophuls is murdered outside his daughter's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, it appears to be a political killing. Ophuls is the former U.S. ambassador to India and America's leading figure in counter-terrorism. But there is much more to Ophuls and his assassin, a mysterious man calling himself "Shalimar the Clown", than meets the eye. One woman is at the center of their shared history, a history of betrayal and deception.

After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next 700 years sailing the seas with the blessing - and ultimately the burden - of living forever. Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis and sets out to scale the island's peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits.

Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. The 70 essays collected here, written over the last 10 years, cover an astonishing range of subjects.

Südindien im 14. Jahrhundert: Die neunjährige Waise Pampa Kampana wird von der Göttin Parvati auserkoren, ihre menschliche Hülle und ihr Sprachrohr in die Welt zu sein. Im Auftrag der Göttin erschafft Pampa aus einer Handvoll Samen eine Stadt: Bisnaga – Victory City, das Wunder der Welt. All ihr Handeln beruht auf der großen Aufgabe, die ihr die Göttin gestellt hat: den Frauen in einer patriarchalen Welt eine gleichberechtigte Rolle zu geben. Aber die Schöpfungsgeschichte Bisnagas nimmt mehr und mehr ihren eigenen Lauf.

Sam DuChamp, un mediocre scrittore di spy stories, ispirandosi al classico di Cervantes crea un personaggio di nome Quichotte: un gentile commesso viaggiatore ossessionato dalla televisione che si innamora in modo impossibile di una star della TV. Insieme al figlio (immaginario), Sancho, Quichotte si lancia in un picaresco viaggio attraverso tutta l'America per mostrarsi degno della mano della amata, e fronteggia coraggiosamente i tragicomici pericoli di un'epoca in cui "tutto può succedere".

"Quichotte" er en stort anlagt, episk fortælling om længslen efter kærlighed og familieliv. Det er en satirisk pastiche over Miguel de Cervantes klassiker, "Don Quixote", og samtidig et spiddende, foruroligende og humoristisk portræt af samtidens USA. 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.

Salman Rushdies Quichotte ist ein Reisender, der besessen ist von der "unwirklichen Wirklichkeit" des Fernsehens. Er will das Herz der Königin der Talkshows erobern und begibt sich auf eine Reise quer durch Amerika, um sich ihrer als würdig zu erweisen; auf dem Beifahrersitz, Sancho, der Sohn, den er sich immer gewünscht hat. Rushdie nimmt Quichottes Abenteuer mit in unsere verrückte Gegenwart.

Rushdies Tausendundeine Nacht. "Mein Roman ist inspiriert von den prächtigen Wundergeschichten Indiens und des Orients und den Märchen aus Tausendundeiner Nacht. Ich stellte mir vor, dass es außer unserer Welt noch eine andere geben könnte, bevölkert mit Wesen, die sich heftig in die menschlichen Angelegenheiten einmischen. Alles beginnt damit, dass eines dieser Wesen, Dunia, die Prinzessin des Lichts, sich in den Philosophen Al Ruschd verliebt... Die Handlung erstreckt sich über zwei Jahre, acht Monate und achtundzwanzig Nächte - über tausendundeine Nacht. Ihr Salman Rushdie."

Los Angeles, 1993. Maximilian Ophuls, illustre intellettuale, eroe della Seconda guerra mondiale ed ex ambasciatore americano in India, muore sotto lo sguardo della propria figlia per mano del suo autista Noman Sher Noman, detto anche "Shalimar il clown". Il delitto si profila sulle prime come un assassinio a sfondo politico. Ma in realtà l'odio di Shalimar si nutre tanto del radicalismo politico e religioso quanto di un'atroce ferita d'amore mai rimarginata...

Nero Golden kommt aus einem Land, dessen Namen er nie wieder hören wollte, seit er mit seinen drei Söhnen vor ein paar Jahren nach New York gezogen ist. Der junge Filmemacher René ist fasziniert von der Familie und gerät in ihren Bann. Er hat Zugang zu der prächtigen Welt der Goldens - und wird Zeuge davon, wie das Reich des alten Golden zerfällt. Salman Rushdie erfasst den irritierenden Zeitgeist und zeichnet mit größter Erzähllust ein genaues Bild unserer heutigen Welt.

Attraversare una frontiera, fare anche un solo passo oltre quella linea immaginaria che segna la fine di un mondo e l'inizio di un altro, significa venire trasformati nel profondo. La frontiera, il limite, il confine risvegliano le nostre coscienze. Sono il luogo in cui non possiamo sfuggire alla verità: ci spogliamo dei panni comodi della nostra esistenza quotidiana che nascondono gli aspetti più brutali della realtà, per osservare le cose come sono.

Nell'India del XIV secolo, dopo una sanguinosa battaglia tra due regni ormai dimenticati, una bambina di nove anni ha un incontro divino che cambierà il corso della storia. La giovanissima Pampa Kampana, distrutta dal dolore per la morte della madre, diventa un tramite per la dea sua omonima, che non solo inizia a parlare attraverso la sua bocca, ma le accorda enormi poteri e le rivela che sarà determinante per la nascita di una grande città chiamata Bisnaga (letteralmente "città della vittoria").