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When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He calls himself Mogor dellAmore, the Mughal of Love, and claims to be the son of a lost princess, whose name and has been erased from the countrys history: Qara Koz.

Da Salman Rushdie ci arriva un resoconto personale e potente su com'e riuscito a resistere - e a sopravvivere - a un attentato alla sua vita trent'anni dopo la fatwa che era stata scagliata contro di lui. Nell'ormai lontanissimo febbraio del 1989 l'ayatollah Khomeini emise una fatwa, una sentenza di morte, contro Rushdie per aver scritto I versi satanici, romanzo nel quale, a detta del leader iraniano, venivano offesi la religione islamica e il suo profeta. A quasi trent'anni da quell'evento, la mattina del 12 agosto 2022, mentre si trovava sul palco del Chautauqua Institution nello stato di New York per tenere una conferenza, un uomo in abiti e maschera neri si precipito lungo il corridoio verso di lui brandendo un coltello. Il primo pensiero di Rushdie fu: "Sei tu, dunque. Eccoti qui". Quello che segui fu un atto di violenza che scosse il mondo letterario e non solo. In queste pagine potentissime, Rushdie ci fa rivivere per la prima volta, e con dettagli indimenticabili, gli eventi traumatici di quel giorno, nonche quello che venne dopo: il suo complicato percorso verso il recupero fisico e la guarigione resi possibili dall'amore e dal sostegno di sua moglie, Eliza, della sua famiglia, del suo esercito di medici e fisioterapisti e della sua comunita di lettori in tutto il mondo. Coltello e l'opera di un Maestro delle Lettere all'apice delle sue capacita, che scrive con passione, con dignita, con onesta incondizionata. È anche un ricordo profondamente commovente del potere della letteratura di dare un senso all'impensabile, una meditazione intima e rassicurante sulla vita, sulla perdita, sull'amore, sull'arte e sul trovare la forza di rialzarsi.

On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage 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 its you. Here you are. What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey of healing and recovery. This is an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art and finding the strength to stand up again.

In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.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 the TV star Salman R. 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.Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirise the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse, with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work. The fully realised lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.

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, Salman Rushdie s'exprime sans concession sur l'a

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub-Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayors office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining.Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world.Once the line between worlds is breached on a grand scale, Dunias children and others will play a role in an epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nights - or two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. It is a time of enormous upheaval, in which beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a hidden curse.Inspired by the traditional ''wonder tales'' of the East, Salman Rushdies novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that remain in todays world. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is satirical and bawdy, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet and karma, rapture and redemption.

Was bedeutet es fur einen Schriftsteller, uber neun Jahre lang mit einer Morddrohung zu leben Was bedeutet es fur einen Schriftsteller, uber neun Jahre lang mit einer Morddrohung zu leben Wie fest hat die Verzweiflung sein Denken und Handeln im Griff Zum ersten Mal erzahlt Salman Rushdie seine beeindruckende Geschichte; es ist die Geschichte eines Kampfes: dem Kampf um die Meinungsfreiheit. Rushdie erzahlt vom teils bitteren, teils komischen Leben unter bewaffnetem Polizeischutz; von den engen Beziehungen, die er zu seinen Beschutzern knupfte; von seinem Ringen um Unterstutzung und Verstandnis bei Regierungen, Verlegern und Schriftstellerkollegen; und davon, wie er seine Freiheit wiedererlangte.

Ésta es la historia de Saleem Sinai, nacido en Bombay al filo de la medianoche del 15 de agosto de 1947, en el momento mismo en que la India, entre fuegos artificiales y multitudes, alcanza su independencia. El destino de Saleem queda inexorablemente unido al de su pais, y sus peripecias personales reflejaran siempre la evolucion politica de la India o seran reflejadas por ella. Es la historia de un hombre dotado de facultades insolitas pero tambien la de una generacion y la de una familia, lo que la convierte en un retrato completo de toda una epoca y una cultura. Ganadora del prestigioso premio Booker of Bookers, hijos de la medianoche constituye una asombrosa novela que combina magistralmente magia y humor, compromiso politico, fantasia y humanidad

Nueve relatos en los que el autor despliega magistralmente los principales temas y elementos de su universo literario.

Al comienzo de esta estupenda novela que nos lleva de la India a Inglaterra y de Inglaterra a América, Vina Apsara, cantante famosa y muy querida, de voz salvaje e irresistible, se ve atrapada en un terremoto devastador y desaparece para siempre. Esta es su historia y la de Ormus Cama, su amante, que la encuentra, la pierde, la busca y vuelve a encontrarla a lo largo de su propia vida insolita, dedicada a la musica.

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 of conspiracy and violence; and Hamlet's jester is caught up in murderous intrigues. In Rushdie's hybrid world, an Indian guru can be a redheaded Welshman, while Christopher Columbus is an immigrant, dreaming of Western glory. Rushdie allows himself, like his characters, to be pulled now in one direction, then in another. Yet he remains a writer who insists on our cultural complexity; who, rising beyond ideology, refuses to choose between East and West and embraces the world.

Una de las más grandes figuras de las letras universales contemporáneas recrea en esta novela el mito de Orfeo, mezclando los más variados elementos para crear un apasionante relato de amor, muerte y