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Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where Anything-Can-Happen .Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirise the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse, with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work. The fully realised lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.

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Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universitiesIf old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour. â ˜Salman Rushdie is a geniusâ ™ A.M. HomesTwo quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor. These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home â “ India, England and America â “ and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life. Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time. Rushdieâ ™s wry sense of mischief remains undimmed Financial Times, *Books of the Year* One of the most important voices in contemporary literature Independentâ ˜Rushdie has not just enlarged literatureâ ™s capacities, he has expanded the worldâ ™s imaginative possibilitiesâ ™ The Times

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Audiokniha: Když se světoznámý spisovatel stal v létě roku 2022 obětí vražedného útoku, tragickou událost přežil s vážnými zraněními. Nůž v rukou atentátníka však nezanechal stopy pouze na jeho těle, ale zasáhl i autorovu mysl. V pronikavé a hluboce otevřené zpovědi, jež je považována za jednu z největších literárních událostí současnosti, vypráví Rushdie o náročném fyzickém i mentálním zotavení, které by nebylo možné bez lásky nejbližších, podpory přátel i čtenářů – a víry v sílu slov. S nadhledem a také smyslem pro humor klade svůj osobní příběh do pletiva světového písemnictví a odkazuje na literární klasiky i své vlastní texty. Nůž je poutavou, intimní meditací o životě, ztrátě, statečnosti a schopnosti znovu vstát. Je to kniha, kterou Salman Rushdie musel napsat. „Statečná obhajoba svobody slova.“ – Guardian „Zčásti thriller, zčásti love story.“ - The Times Salman Rushdie – Nůž | Překlad Martina Neradová | Čte Hanuš Bor, Filip Březina | Režie Petr Mančal | Zvuk a střih Kate Hamsíková | Mastering Štěpán Škoch | Hudba Jan Šikl | Natočeno ve studiu All Senses Production s. r. o. | Grafiku podle knižní obálky upravila Jana Lhotáková | Produkce Kate Hamsíková | Supervize Kateřina Višinská | Vydala Euromedia Group, a. s. – Témbr, září 2025 KNIFE Copyright © 2024, Salman Rushdie All rights reserved Překlad © Martina Neradová, 2024 Vydalo Nakladatelství Paseka s. r. o., 2024 paseka.cz

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Salman Rushdie, a self-described â ˜emigrant from one place and a newcomer in twoâ ™, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of memory and what happens when East meets West. Selected from the books Shame, Imaginary Homelands and East, West by Salman Rushdie VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the worldâ ™s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Love by Jeanette WintersonLiberty by Virginia WoolfRace by Toni Morrison Sisters by Louisa May Alcott

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If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can t rest until he avenges his former tormentor.Following Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie s new fiction moves between the places he has grown up in, inhabited, explored, and left.In doing so, he asks fundamental questions we all one day face. How does one deal with, accommodate, or rail against entering the eleventh hour, the final stage of your life? How can you bid farewell to the places you have made home?The Eleventh Hour is the magisterial new work from one of our greatest living writers. It speaks deeply to what Salman Rushdie has come from and through, and strikes into the heart of our fractious times.

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Když se světoznámý spisovatel stal v létě roku 2022 obětí vražedného útoku, tragickou událost přežil s vážnými zraněními. Nůž v rukou atentátníka však nezanechal stopy pouze na jeho těle, ale zasáhl i autorovu mysl.V pronikavé a hluboce otevřené zpovědi, jež je považována za jednu z největších literárních událostí současnosti, tvypráví Rushdie o náročném fyzickém i mentálním zotavení, které by nebylo možné bez lásky nejbližších, podpory přátel i čtenářů – a víry v sílu slov. S nadhledem a také smyslem pro humor klade svůj osobní příběh do pletiva světového písemnictví a odkazuje na literární klasiky i své vlastní texty.Nůž je poutavou, intimní meditací o životě, ztrátě, statečnosti a schopnosti znovu vstát. Je to kniha, kterou Salman Rushdie musel napsat.

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n the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black – black clothes, black mask – rushed down the aisle towards him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are.What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey of healing and recovery. This an intimate meditation on life, loss, love, art – and finding the strength to stand up again

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With its range of expert essays and readings, detailed chronology of Salman Rushdie s life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.

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Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt.Discover Salman Rushdieâ ™s critically acclaimed magical realist study of good and evil. A masterpiece Sunday TimesJust before dawn one winter s morning, a plane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices.Washed up, alive, on an English beach, their survival is a miracle. But there is a price to pay. Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen as opponents in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil. But chosen by whom? And which is which? And what will be the outcome of their final confrontation? A great novelist, a master of perpetual storytelling V.S. Pritchett

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**New York Times bestseller** One of the most vivid and convincing portraits of contemporary America I ve read Observer When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking Roman names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society. The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, René, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. René chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work. In a new world order of alternative truths, Salman Rushdie has written the ultimate novel about identity, truth, terror and lies. A brilliant, heart-breaking realist novel that is not only uncannily prescient but shows one of the world s greatest storytellers working at the height of his powers.

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Discover Salman Rushdieâ ™s critically acclaimed magical realist study of good and evil. A masterpiece Sunday TimesJust before dawn one winter s morning, a plane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Washed up, alive, on an English beach, their survival is a miracle. But there is a price to pay. Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen as opponents in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil. But chosen by whom? And which is which? And what will be the outcome of their final confrontation? A great novelist, a master of perpetual storytelling V.S. Pritchett

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The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdieâ ™s phantasmagoric epic Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms of pregnancy, they shared the son that they all claim to have borne on the same night. Raised at their six breasts, Omar s mothers teach him to live a life without shame. And it is training that proves very useful when he leaves his mothersâ ™ fortress and makes the fateful mistake of falling in love. For he finds himself an unwitting player in an ongoing duel between the families of two men â “ one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure â “ living in a world caught between honour and humiliation, where a moment of shame could prove fatal. â ˜Shame is every bit as good as Midnight s Children. It is a pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperativesâ ™ The Times

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The extraordinary literary debut of Salman Rushdie: â ˜A firework of a book, funny and endlessly surprisingâ ™ Ursula Le GuinFlapping 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 worldâ ™s seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island, a place where his fellow immortals have gathered and created their own version of the human race. But Calf Island is a strange place â “ like its inhabitants, it is both blessed and cursed. Sensing a terrible darkness at the heart of the island, Flapping Eagle sets out to scale the islandâ ™s peak and confront its mysterious and potent creator, Grimus himself. A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present day... Grimus is a parallel form of life, and conjuring of an alternative society Financial Times

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„Když Christopher Hitchens dopsal svou knihu Bůh není veliký, poslal mi ji, abych si ji přečetl, a já mu řekl, jen napůl v žertu, že má v názvu jedno slovo navíc; bylo by užitečné, kdyby vymazal ‚veliký‘.“ Touto větou otevírá známý spisovatel esej Instinkt svobody. V kolekci brilantně napsaných textů se Rushdie profiluje nejen jako oddaný obhájce svobody slova a umělecké výpovědi, ale především jako znalec světového písemnictví a kultury. Věnuje se velkým literátům 20. století z rodu Kurta Vonneguta nebo Samuela Becketta, srovnává Shakespearovo mistrovství se Cervantesovým, na příkladu Aje Wej-weje, Pussy Riot či Roberta Saviana ukazuje, jakou roli hraje v tvorbě odvaha. Nechybí ani příspěvky, které se věnují dopadení bin Ládina nebo koronavirové pandemii. Rushdie vždy píše s vášnivým zaujetím pro styl, ve kterém se prolíná přesnost pozorování s bohatou obrazností. A se smyslem pro pravdu, bez ohledu na to, jak riskantní může být.

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Rushdie s most engaging book since Midnight s Children Observer Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home of Kashmir. But fate has played him cruelly, torn him away from his beloved home and brought him to Los Angeles, where he works as a chauffeur. One morning he gets up, goes to work, and kills his employer, America s former counter-terrorist chief Maximilian Ophuls, in view of the victim s illegitimate daughter, India. The killing has its roots halfway across the globe, back in Kashmir, a ruined paradise not so much lost as shattered. And gradually it emerges that beyond this unholy trinity of Max, India and Shalimar, lurks a fourth, shadowy figure, one who binds them all together. This is Rushdie at his most flamboyant best Financial Times

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Když je na prahu losangeleského domu své dcery zavražděn někdejší hrdina protinacistického odboje a velvyslanec USA v Indii Maximilian Ophuls, vše nasvědčuje politickému pozadí činu, jehož pachatelem je Ophulsův osobní řidič klaun Šalimar , muslimský rodák z Kašmíru. Navzdory Ophulsově významné roli v protiteroristických aktivitách americké vlády se však ukáže, že motivy vraždy jsou výhradně osobního rázu: jejich ztělesněním je čtvrtá z klíčových postav, jejíž osud, úzce spojující oba muže, je spolu s nedávnou tragickou historií Kašmíru klíčem k celému příběhu. Tak jako ve svých předchozích knihách, i v Klaunu Šalimarovi vede Rushdie široce rozklenutý románový děj s charakteristickou suverenitou a jazykovou invencí až k samému závěru své písně smutku i naděje , reagující na neklidnou tvář dnešního světa.

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Nineteen stories from the Pashto tradition. Â A stunning collection of Pashto folktales, Heartstrings of the Khyber offers a comprehensive exploration of South and Central Asian cultural and literary heritage. Knowledgeable readers and novices alike can learn about the history and traditions of Pashto culture through medieval tales never before shared with the English-speaking literary world. By translating, transcribing, and compiling stories from the oral tradition, Shaherzaad Laila and Komal Salman have curated a critical resource for preserving Pashto customs and narratives. Â Heartstrings of the Khyber features epics, fairy tales, and folk romances portraying Pashto culture through previously untranslated stories. Within this carefully curated collection, readers are able to explore themes of love, loss, longing, and honor throughout the cultural ethos of the Pashtuns. Laila and Salman have created an essential read for folklore appreciators and scholars alike.

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