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Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk about his 13th novel, The Golden House, is critically acclaimed British-Indian novelist and writer Sir Salman Rushdie. Born in Bombay, British India, Salman Rushdie has become literary nobility, lauded for his ability to combine magical realism with historical fiction, focusing on the connections between Eastern and Western civilisations.

Mr. Rushdie, the author of Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, reads from his newest novel, Shalimar the Clown.

Das Weltereignis als Hörbuch: Salman Rushdie erzählt die Geschichte des Attentats auf ihn. Im August 2022 wird Salman Rushdie während einer Lesung auf offener Bühne mit einem Messer angegriffen und schwer verletzt. Mehr als dreißig Jahre nachdem das iranische Regime wegen seines Romans "Die satanischen Verse« eine Fatwa gegen ihn ausgesprochen hat, holt ihn die Bedrohung ein.

Por primera vez, y con una franqueza conmovedora, Rushdie habla sobre los traumáticos acontecimientos vividos el 12 de agosto de 2022, respondiendo con la fuerza del arte a la violencia ejercida contra él, y recordándonos el poder que tienen las palabras para otorgar sentido a lo impensable.

The author of Midnight's Children discusses Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights with A. M. Homes. Rushdie's novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that remain in today's world, and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.

The author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses talks with Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) about his long-anticipated, enthralling and provocative new memoir of his exile under the fatwa that sentenced him to death in 1989.