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Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, including several never previously published, Languages of Truth chronicles a period of momentous cultural shifts. Across a wide variety of subjects, Rushdie delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need, and what emerges is a love letter to literature itself. Throughout, Rushdie shares his personal encounters, on the page and in person, with storytellers from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison, and revels in the creative lines that can join art and life. 

On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of...

In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming: a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions, of strange heroes and warrior-poets. Rushdie came to know an enormous range of people, from the foreign minister, a priest, to the midwife who kept a pet cow in her living room.

Attraversare una frontiera, fare anche un solo passo oltre quella linea immaginaria che segna la fine di un mondo e l'inizio di un altro, significa venire trasformati nel profondo. La frontiera, il limite, il confine risvegliano le nostre coscienze. Sono il luogo in cui non possiamo sfuggire alla verità: ci spogliamo dei panni comodi della nostra esistenza quotidiana che nascondono gli aspetti più brutali della realtà, per osservare le cose come sono.

Salman Rushdie is a renowned British-Indian novelist, essayist, and public intellectual known for his thought-provoking and controversial works that often explore themes of religion, politics, and cultural identity. Born Ahmed Salman Rushdie on June 19, 1947, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, to a Muslim family, he grew up in a privileged and liberal household. His father, Anis Ahmed Rushdie, was a successful businessman, and his mother, Negin Bhatt, was a teacher. Rushdie's early years were marked by a love for literature and storytelling. He was an avid reader from a young age, devouring books ...