Imaginary Homelands - by Salman Rushdie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Rushdie at his most candid, impassioned, and incisive--an important and moving record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. These 75 essays demonstrate Rushdie's range and prophetic vision, as he focuses on his fellow writers, on films, and on the mine-strewn ground of race, politics and religion.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie's masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination."-Michael Foot, <i>Observer</i> <p/> Salman Rushdie's <i>Imaginary Homelands</i> is an important record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects -the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Born in Bombay in 1947, <b>Salman Rushdie</b> is the author of six novels, including <b>Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh</b>, and <b>The Ground Beneath Her Feet</b>, and a volume of essays, <b>Imaginary Homelands</b>. His numerous literary prizes include the Booker Prize for <b>Midnight's Children</b> and the Whitbread Prize for <b>The Satanic Verses</b>.
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