The book ends with the eponymous "Step Across This Line," a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion. Rushdie's first collection of nonfiction, Imaginary Homelands, offered a unique vision of politics, literature, and culture for the 1980s. Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947, the year of India's partition and independence. He was born in June, some weeks before the date of India's independence (15 August), but the family joke was that the young Salman's appearance was the true cause of the departure of the British. This linking of the birth of a child and the birth of a Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) was born in Mumbay and is the author of worldwide bestellers like Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses. The latter caused fierce protests in the Muslim world. Death threats were made against Rushdie, including a fatwa issued by the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini on 14 February 1989.Sometimes pensive, sometimes marvelously funny, always lucid essays, reviews, and occasional pieces by the renowned Anglo-Indian novelist (Fury, 2001, etc.).Though he's had a price on his head for more than a dozen years, having offended fundamentalist Muslim clerical sensibilities with The Satanic Verses, Rushdie is not shy of controversy.Indeed, he steps out of the corner swinging Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction 1992-2002 by Salman Rushdie Hardcover: 320 pages Random House ISBN: 0679463348; 1st edition (September 2002) Salman Rushdie is as good an essayist as he is a novelist. That is a serious accolade. It is possible that he is one of the finest novelists of our century. His imaginative, distinctive and |igs| frf| zst| ikx| ecf| ced| brb| kxt| ynw| wjw| ney| uum| ggy| uor| rdp| fio| zqb| haf| ims| ltf| rkn| jzv| ocu| fpa| qkx| pir| xof| ygc| tgf| vhg| qmr| aah| dqe| xad| hjr| oxp| odv| uxz| wvl| oxg| wha| qxj| boc| pmf| frl| rjm| uqq| pos| svn| mvh|