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Step Across This Line - Couverture souple

Rushdie, Salman

 
9780099421870: Step Across This Line
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0099421879 ISBN 13 : 9780099421870
Editeur : Vintage, 2003

Synopsis

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 Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy.

In a central section, 'Messages from the Plague Years', Rushdie focuses on the fight against the Iranian fatwa, presenting texts both personal and political, which show for the first time how it was to live through those days. Rushdie's columns for the New York Times confront current issues - Kashmir, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Islam and the West - as well as lighter topics such as reality TV, sport and sleaze. The book ends with the lectures that give it its title - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live.

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À propos de l'auteur

Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

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Éditeur
Vintage
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0099421879
ISBN 13 
9780099421870
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
464
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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