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A Good Place To Start
| Title | Votes | |
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| Midnight's Children | 5 | |
| The Moor's Last Sigh | 2 | |
| Shame | 1 | |
| Haroun and the Sea of Stories | 1 | |
| The Ground Beneath Her Feet | 1 |
A Bad Place To Start
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| The Satanic Verses | 3 | |
| Fury | 2 | |
| The Moor's Last Sigh | 1 |
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Salman Rushdie (1947 - )
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EAST, WEST (a collection of stories) is available as a recorded book, with Rushdie reading. He is a brilliant reader, and uses a variety of accents for various characters. Try to find it!!!
drunken dime February 25th, 2007 08:44 PM PST
I read "The Moor's Last Sigh" because I heard somebody reading a passage from it on NPR. I loved the way the characters spoke, modifying the English language with funny endings to the words.
I liked the first half of the book, but then the plot became very grandiose and violent. Lots of explosions near the finish. A real Hollywood ending (not Bollywood, that I might have liked).
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Found this on line with a course syllabus including his works:
Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India on June 19, 1947. His father was a wealthy Muslim businessman, and Salman was educated in England at Rugby and the University of Cambridge. After college he worked as an advertising copywriter in England, while he began his writing career. His second book, Midnight's Children (1981) was well received, and his reputation as an author seemed assured.
is novel, The Satanic Verses (1988) described how Satan inserted verses into the Koran, the sacred book of Islam. The Prophet Muhammad was also depicted, at times, in an unfavorable manner. Many religious Muslims found this book deeply offensive, and in 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini, the religious leader of Iran, proclaimed a fatwah (death sentence) on Salman Rushdie. Six million dollars was offered for Rushdie's assassination. Rushdie went into hiding in England, became depressed and developed writer's block.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories was the first book published since the fatwah, and on one level deals with issue of censorship and its harmful effects on the society as well as the individual. Other works since the fatwah include East,West (1994), and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995).
Although Iran has lifted the fatwah since the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Mr. Rushdie remains cautious in his travels, and still in fear of individual Muslims he may have offended.
Marian November 8th, 2006 06:33 PM PST