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Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 Quichotte is a love story of profound tenderness and humanity from a great storyteller at his brilliant best. Wise, beautifully written, as heartbreaking as it is wildly comic, its characters unforgettable, its plot dazzlingly suspenseful, Quichotte illuminates our ...Show more
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam ...Show more
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
59.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Los Angeles, 1991. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is murdered in broad daylight on his illegitimate daughter India's doorstep, slaughtered by a knife wielded by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown. The dead man is a W ...Show more
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
The place is Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar, the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability ...Show more
Shame by Salman Rushdie
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared the symptoms of pregnancy, as they did everything else, inseparably. At their six breasts, Omar was warned against all feelings and nuances of shame. It was training which would prove useful when he left his mothers' fortress (via the dumb-waiter) to face ...Show more
Step Across This Line - Collected Non-Fiction 1992-2002 by Salman Rushdie
27.95 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A collection of non-fiction, ranging from "The Wizard of Oz", U2, Indian and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth century writers including Angela Carter, and Arthur Miller. This book also focuses on the fight against the Iranian fatwa, showing how it was to live throu ...Show more
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic | Reading Level: very good
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell 'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, th ...Show more
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
59.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, th ...Show more
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic Ser. | Reading Level: good
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, th ...Show more
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture--a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - PBS - HARPER'S BAZAAR - ESQUIRE - FIN ...Show more
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
**New York Times bestseller** A Guardian / Observer Book of the Year 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. Ar ...Show more
The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this brilliantly focussed and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming: a land o ...Show more