Salman Rushdie

On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, 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 toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought.

Discover Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie's classic fantasy novel....

The tale of an Indian film star and a Bombay expatriate, Rushdie’s masterpiece was deservedly honored with the Whitbread Prize.....

Winner of the prestigious Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children tells the story of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of India's independence....

On February 14, 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....

Salman Rushdie, 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....

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations....

Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India....

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....

La epopeya de una mujer que infunde vida a un imperio fantástico que acabará por devorarlaal cabode siglos, todo ello gracias a la sobresaliente imaginación de Salman Rushdie, ganador del Booker Prize y autor superventas....

In the imperial capital of the Mughal Empire, a traveler arrives at the court of Emperor Akbar....

From Rashid’s fertile intellect spring bedazzling tales his son Luka devours with a child’s earnestness....

"Il était essentiel que j’écrive ce livre : une manière d’accueillir ce qui est arrivé, et de répondre à la violence par l’art." Pour la première fois...

Rushdie effortlessly weaves a series of interconnected narratives to form a sweeping and ambitious tale, at once timeless and startlingly modern....

In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men 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....

Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again...

A rickshaw driver dreams of being a Bombay movie star; Indian diplomats, who as childhood friends hatched Star Trek fantasies, must boldly go into a hidden universe....

The world renowned author of The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie is a Whitbread Award winner and recipient of the Booker Prize....

Recounting his travels there in 1986, in the midst of America's behind-the-scenes war against the Sandinistas, Rushdie reveals a nation resounding to the clashes between government and individuals....