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Salman Rushdie

Born

in Bombay, Bombay presidency, British India

June 19, 1947

Website

https:// salmanrushdie /

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Genre

Fiction,Children's,Memoir

Influences

Vladimir Nabokov,Mikhail Bulgakov,Chekov,Joseph Conrad,Scheherazad ...more

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The Satanic Verses (1988), novel of Indian-born British writerSalman RushdieledRuholla Khomeini,the ayatollah of Iran, to demand his execution and then forced him into hiding; his other works include Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker prize, and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995).

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, a novelist and essayist, set much of his early fiction at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.

His fourth novel led to some violent protests from Muslims in several countries. Faced with death threats and a fatwa (religious edic ...more

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What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now

Salman Rushdie forThe New Yorker

Page-Turner, June 13, 2019

Photograph by Santi Visalli / Getty

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” is humane enough to allow, at the end of the horror that is its subject, for the possibility of hope.

I first read “Slaughterhouse-Five” in 1972, three years after it was published and three years before I published my own first novel. I was twenty-five years o

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Average rating: 3.83 · 419,394 ratings · 37,598 reviews ·139 distinct works •Similar authors

	Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 126,862 ratings — published 1981 — 235 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 67,658 ratings — published 1988 — 213 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1) by Salman Rushdie, Paul Birkbeck(Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 36,058 ratings — published 1990 — 152 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Enchantress of Florence 3.61 avg rating — 19,008 ratings — published 2008 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder 4.08 avg rating — 14,135 ratings — published 2024 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shalimar the Clown 3.91 avg rating — 14,417 ratings — published 2005 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moor's Last Sigh 3.93 avg rating — 14,254 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shame 3.86 avg rating — 12,562 ratings — published 1983 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights 3.39 avg rating — 13,591 ratings — published 2015 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victory City 3.79 avg rating — 12,018 ratings — published 2023 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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