Salman Rushdie – författare

Gibril Farishta är den indiska filmindustrins mest skandalomsusade stjärna. Saladin Chamcha är en berömd röstimitatör. Tillsammans sitter de på ett flygplan på väg till England när planet plötsligt kapas, sprängs och störtar. Som ett mirakel överlever de båda ett fritt fall från tiotusen meters höjd, och knappt har de stigit iland på den engelska kusten förrän de förvandlas till änglar - en god och en ond.

I Thatchers England möts de av invandrarhat, polisbrutalitet och gatuvåld, men även av sönderslitande kärlekshistorier och svartsjukedramer. Och kampen mellan gott och ont går vidare, i en värld full av tv-stjärnor, prostituerade, mördare och svindlare.

Det är sällan vår tids historia skrivs framför våra ögon. Men utan tvekan är detta fallet med Salman Rushdies Satansverserna.

Efter att hon bevittnat sin mors död blir den nioåriga Pampa Kampana tagen i besittning av en gudinna som talar genom henne. Gudinnan ger flickan magiska krafter och berättar för henne att hon kommer att spela en central roll för uppkomsten av en mäktig stad vid namn Bisnaga – ”segerstaden”. Pampa Kampana ger med sitt berättande staden liv, och under de kommande seklerna blir hennes öde sammanflätat med Bisnaga, men staden vilar på bräcklig grund. Med "Segerstaden" har Salman Rushdie skapat en episk saga om berättandets magiska kraft och maktens oändliga hybris.

If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour. Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can't rest until he avenges his former tormentor. Following Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie's new fiction moves between the places he has grown up in, inhabited, explored, and left. In doing so, he asks fundamental questions we all one day face. How does one deal with, accommodate, or rail against entering the eleventh hour, the final stage of your life? How can you bid farewell to the places you have made home? The Eleventh Hour is the magisterial new work from one of our greatest living writers. It speaks deeply to what Salman Rushdie has come from and through, and strikes into the heart of our fractious times.

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: So it’s you. Here you are. What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide. Knife is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature’s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again.

Den 12 augusti 2022 blev Salman Rushdie attackerad under ett framträdande i Chautauqua i New York. I Kniv berättar han för första gången i detalj om det fruktansvärda dådet, men påminner oss också om hur konsten kan hjälpa oss att förstå det otänkbara. Kniv är en gripande och personlig skildring av livet efter attacken och samtidigt ett resonemang om sorgen, kärleken, konsten och om vikten av att hitta styrkan att resa sig ännu

en gång

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.