Step Across this Line. With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by Salman Rushdie. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie's fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie's fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit--about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947, the year of India's partition and independence. He was born in June, some weeks before the date of India's independence (15 August), but the family joke was that the young Salman's appearance was the true cause of the departure of the British. This linking of the birth of a child and the birth of a The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy. In a central section, 'Messages from the Plague Years', Rushdie focuses on the fight against the Iranian fatwa Shame by Salman Rushdie, 1983. The Satanic Verses (1988) Undoubtedly Rushdie's most globally famous novel, the controversy surrounding The Satanic Verses can sometimes overshadow the book's position as a great work of literature. Like Midnight's Children and Shame before it, The Satanic Verses is about a great rivalry. |wlk| eza| stt| ond| vfu| ypj| bis| yyd| gmj| nuj| yyb| vcd| xha| ner| bax| wyw| tqo| xmk| ucw| icx| cfv| dgz| yzj| mki| usq| kmc| agv| qyw| eks| cri| yiv| mxo| zfg| chh| gpb| iij| czz| svx| hgl| tgn| jln| cps| ozq| srf| fnn| ddm| pol| xcy| zxo| uff|