Published: 1 April 2010
ISBN: 9780099542254
Imprint: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
RRP: $22.99

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Imaginary Homelands

Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Salman Rushdie

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A collection of 75 essays that illuminate the culture of his times, and of ours.

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.

Published: 1 April 2010
ISBN: 9780099542254
Imprint: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
RRP: $22.99

Categories:

Non-fiction prose

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About the author

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels – Grimus, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, The Golden House and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for hte Booker Prize) – and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of non-fiction – Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line – and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

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Praise for Imaginary Homelands

A book bristling with intelligence, deeply held opinions, and wonderful flights of fancy
The Boston Globe

Playful profound and provocative...Rushdie is never less than instructive. He holds nothing back
New York Newsday

A deft, various, and humane collection
Christopher Hitchens, Independent

There is fine commentary here
Christopher Hirst, Independent

Read every page of this book. Better still, reread them. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defense of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his all-powerful imagination
Michael Foot