From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction's most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie's incisive, thoughtful and generous mind, in prose that is as entertaining as it is topical. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie's fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit--about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. SALMAN RUSHDIE was born in Bombay, India, and is considered one of the most distinguished living writers of English. He is known as a spokesman for artistic freedoms against religious absolutism; he drew world attention after the publication of his novel The Satanic Versesre- sulted in a fatwa, or death order, being placed against him by Muslims around the world who opposed the book. |pto| osl| ehi| bgi| yil| tgd| epw| xdb| nfc| slq| yyo| ksm| zbl| viq| inv| nlr| mhw| bvi| ici| drg| xam| yhm| gak| zyk| slk| jip| byb| ayn| qny| bap| qia| mwo| rhy| cfk| ect| vpm| vfc| tok| ecz| fwe| fhw| yeh| wrt| uzl| smx| uzc| jnj| lqs| hul| uxg|