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    Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticicsm 1981-1991
    Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticicsm 1981-1991
    Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticicsm 1981-1991
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    Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticicsm 1981-1991

    Written by Salman Rushdie

    Narrated by John Curless

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    Salman Rushdie's "Imaginary Homelands" is an important record of one writer's intellectual and personal oddyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects - the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism, in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 10, 2017
    ISBN9781501926242
    Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticicsm 1981-1991
    Author

    Salman Rushdie

    Salman Rushdie is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Midnight’s Children (winner of the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Grimus, 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, and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights—and a collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published works of nonfiction, including Joseph Anton (a memoir of his life under the fatwa issued after the publication of The Satanic Verses), The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line—and co-edited the anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories. 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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    • 4/5
      A well-written, interesting selection of essays and book reviews, but each piece is essentially too short, making the collection as a whole hard to read.
    • 5/5
      I love reading Mr Rushdie's essays. They are insightful and thought provoking and are the kind of writing that I pull out from time to time and re-read. I have to admit I have the same admiration for some of the essays by Ian McEwan, another of my favourite authors. Mr Rushdie's talents extend beyond fiction and if you have found his fiction too heavy try reading his non-fiction..