East, West - format ePub

"Il était essentiel que j’écrive ce livre : une manière d’accueillir ce qui est arrivé, et de répondre à la violence par l’art." Pour la première fois, Salman Rushdie s’exprime sans concession sur l’attaque...

Après avoir bu un élixir d’immortalité, Aigle Errant, un jeune Indien, passe sept cents ans à parcourir le monde. Mais le don de la vie éternelle commence à se muer en fardeau. Lassé de l’existence, Aigle...

"Il était essentiel que j’écrive ce livre : une manière d’accueillir ce qui est arrivé, et de répondre à la violence par l’art." Pour la première fois, Salman Rushdie s’exprime sans concession sur l’attaque...

Ce recueil réunit une centaine d’essais et d’articles publiés par Salman Rushdie dans la presse britannique et américaine de 1981 à 2002 : critiques littéraires, articles très personnels sur la genèse...

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt.Discover Salman Rushdie’s critically acclaimed magical realist study of good and evil.'A...

On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep...

Discover a brilliant collection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning author.This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West....

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's unforgettable epic. Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms...

The extraordinary literary debut of Salman RushdieFlapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister. But after 777 years of sailing the...

**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman RushdieOn the morning of 12 August 2022,...

Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether...

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including...

Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece. In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener...

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a...

Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun...

Deux ans, huit mois et vingt-huit nuits est un conte merveilleux qui interroge notre vie contemporaine à la lumière de l’histoire et de la mythologie. Échappés de leur univers aussi fabuleux qu’ennuyeux,...

Le jour de l’investiture de Barack Obama, un énigmatique millionnaire venu d’un lointain Orient prend ses quartiers dans une communauté préservée au coeur de Greenwich Village avec ses trois fils adultes...

Quichotte, un représentant de commerce vieillissant obsédé par le “réel irréel” de la télévision, tombe éperdument amoureux d’une reine du petit écran et s’embarque, à travers les routes d’Amérique, dans...

Dans ce conte épique empli de merveilleux prenant sa source dans le sud de l'Inde au 14e siècle, une jeune femme nommée Pampa Kampana, habitée par une déesse, donne vie à un formidable empire dont elle...

LE livre le plus attendu de Rushdie : celui qui raconte la fatwa, la vie d'un écrivain basculant soudain dans la peur et dans la clandestinité, dont le paradoxe est d'avoir engendré une célébrité phénoménale....

Dans ce recueil d’essais, articles et autres discours écrits sur une période de dix-sept ans, Salman Rushdie se fait historien, conteur, ami et critique de ses auteurs favoris, mais aussi guide pour écrivain...

Un jumbo jet explose au-dessus de la Manche. Au milieu de membres humains éparpillés et d’objets non identifiés, deux silhouettes improbables tombent du ciel : Gibreel Farishta, le légendaire acteur indien,...

Dans les contes de fées de Rushdie, l’Est rencontre l’Ouest, la légende s’allie au réalisme, la parodie se mêle au merveilleux. Truculents ou émouvants, ses personnages sont toujours imprévisibles. Un...

La furie s'est emparée du professeur Malik Solanka. Fuyant l'Angleterre, sa femme et son fils, il s'établit à Manhattan pour "se déprendre et se refaire". Mais recommencer de zéro est difficile quand...

La disparition de l'arrière-grand-père Francisco, avalé par un lagon du sud de l'Inde, constitue un premier drame au sein de l'invraisemblable famille Gama-Zogoiby dont est issu le narrateur, dit "Le...

Un jeune homme blond dressé sur un char à bœufs entre à la cour du Grand Moghol, au cœur des Indes. S'il recherche l'empereur, c'est pour lui raconter sa vie. Il est le fils de l'Enchanteresse de Florence,...

Du Bombay des années 1950 aux distilleries de tequila du Mexique en passant par le Swinging Chelsea et les bateaux-émetteurs rouillés des stations de radio pirates, voici Vina Apsara, chanteuse pop à...

Saleem Sinai, le héros de cet extraordinaire roman picaresque, est né à Bombay le 15 août 1947, à minuit sonnant, au moment où l'Inde accède à l'indépendance. Comme les mille et un enfants nés lors de...

Omar Khayyam Shakil a trois mères, trois sœurs qui manifestent en même temps les symptômes de la grossesse. Dans l’étrange retraite qu’elles se sont choisie, elles lui donneront à téter le lait de leurs...

Ainsi débute cette fable : un jeune garçon nommé Haroun, désolé de constater que son père, conteur de son état, a perdu son inspiration, entreprend un long voyage à travers une contrée merveilleuse. Son...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

Sometimes, one thinks a collection like this should have a chronological order, then perhaps a thematic approach, or a random, feel-good experience. I use all three, so buckle up and enjoy this intense,...

Speaking in Poetic Tongues... the Vedas of Aleph Null is the work of writer and musician  who has followed a complex path in life, experiencing and exploring. Part memoir and part fiction, this work is...

 I found myself sitting on the chair and watching the tubes travel from Angelito's body to the idiotic machine that was breathing for him.

Christmas is a time for friends and family to come together and put differences aside, but for the Ellsworth clan, that can sometimes be a monumental task. No one knows that better than Sandy Ellsworth,...

Beyond the Veil is a sci-fi/fantasy story following Elias and Sienna, two travelers searching for the "real world" across shifting dimensions. Each door they pass through takes them to strange, fragmented...

Janitors for a secret SCP site, Laura, Danielle, Karson, Jake, and Leo, stumble upon a case file in one of the trash cans. It seemed to have been placed their by mistake. Taking matters into their own...

Tales of Wonder and Truth: A Collection by Jonathan OlveraIn this heartfelt and imaginative collection of short stories, Jonathan Olvera invites readers on a journey through the extraordinary and the...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into...

Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest…...

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume – plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years. ‘My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the...

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This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents of the complete works of Oscar Wilde, containing more than 150 works. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie...

Two fictional stories featuring Taylor Swift as the female hero. In the first book Taylor buys a mirror that allows her to enter a parallel universe. In the second story Taylor's mother is kidnapped by...

THE VILLAGE OF STEPANCHIKOVO AND ITS INHABITANTS by Fyodor Dostoevsky: EPITOMEAbridged by Pietro CaraccioloA Russian literary classic, now in a shorter, vivid, and more accessible format.Discover Dostoevsky's...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

As Lisa Turvan lies in a hospital room preparing to give birth to her first child, the biggest pain in her life has less to do with being in labor and more to do with a visit from her overbearing mother-in-law...

Memoirs of a Serial Best Man is a collection of witty, funny and unforgettable wedding stories from the point of view of the best man, written by Africa's Flash Fiction Queen, Tolulope Popoola.Meet CJ,...

Living with his brother's ex was meant to be temporary—until she made him want forever. LeviLetting my brother's ex crash at my place was supposed to be a short-term solution. But Brooklyn's not just...

'Laughing Tearfully' is a collection of 23 short stories by Dr. Lida Prypchan, psychiatrist and founder of non-profit Psychiatry, Philosophy + Arts. Dr. Prypchan has more than three decades of experience...

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign...

I heard it again, whistling through the wind–the Devil's hymn. Death's sweet serenade beckoned me to spill innocent blood. I obliged, thinking my sacrifice would deafen its pleas.If you listen close enough...

This collection of epic fantasy stories will transport you into another realm!This collection of stories has it all; demon queens, mermaids, seers, wyverns, clashes over thrones, denial of royal bloodlines,...

Alice and Eliot continue to keep up with their work as they get used to being married.

10 Fragments of Eternity is a dive into the realm of imagination, where ink strokes become stories and sketches give birth to worlds. This collection emerged from a singular experiment: the author's drawings...

A dark and disturbing ebook original from the master of the crime genre.A famous writer asks a boxman to open an old safe that comes with the mansion he's just bought. It's not as easy a job as he's used...

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America, the novel follows Esther Greenwood, a talented and ambitious young woman, as she...

Three irresistible short stories by the global phenomenon Ali Hazelwood, now available together in paperback for the first time, with an exclusive bonus chapter.Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first,...

Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three...

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