Book description
Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this
collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays,
demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable
imaginative and observational powers.
With candour, eloquence and indignation he carefully examines an
expanse of topics; including the politics of India and Pakistan,
censorship, the Labour Party, Palestinian identity, contemporary film
and late-twentieth century race, religion and politics. Elsewhere he
trains his eye on literature and fellow writers, from Julian Barnes on
love to the politics of George Orwell's 'Inside the Whale', providing
fresh insight on Kipling, V. S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, John le
Carré, Raymond Carver, Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon among others.
Profound, passionate and insightful, Imaginary Homelands is a
masterful collection from one of the greatest writers working today.
Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen novels, one collection of
short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of
The
Vintage Book of Indian Writing
. In 1993
Midnight's Children
was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the
Booker Prize in its forty year history.
The Moor's Last Sigh
won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion
Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
