Imaginary Homelands: Salman Rushdie: 9780140140361.
Born in Bombay in 1947, Salman Rushdie is the author of six novels, including Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and a volume of essays, Imaginary Homelands. His numerous literary prizes include the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children and the Whitbread Prize for The Satanic Verses.IMAGINARY HOMELANDS is a collection of Salman Rushdie's writings from 1981 to 1991. They include essays, book reviews, interviews, and random musings dating from the beginning of his popularity after his novel MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN until the third anniversary of the death fatwa pronounced on him by the Ayatollah Khomeini for his book THE SATANIC VERSES.Salman Rushdie’s essay “Imaginary Homelands” begins with an image of a photograph in the room where he writes. It is a picture of the house in which he lived as a child, taken before he was.
Rushdie calls his controversial novel The Satanic Verses a migrant's-eye view of the world, and indeed the theme of cultural transplantation informs many of the 75 essays and reviews gathered in t.Like George Orwell or Bruce Chatwin, Salman Rushdie observes and illuminates a stunning range of cultural, political, and intellectual issues crucial to our time. Imaginery Homelands is an important record of Rushdie's intellectual and personal odyssey, and the 75 essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects.
Imaginary Homelands brings most of these essays together with the several major statements Rushdie has written in the wake of The Satanic Verses controversy to form what amounts to an.
