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1. www.harvard.com › book › 9781324095491Quarterlife: A Novel (Hardcover) | Harvard Book Store

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   4 days ago · An exploration of the relationship of the self with the nation in the fashion of the big novels of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh. . . [Rege’s] biggest achievement is her fidelity to her object of exploration and her refusal to make aesthetic concessions in its representation. She resists the fictionalist’s urge to simplify. . .

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Satanic_Verses_controversySatanic Verses controversy - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · Even before the publication of The Satanic Verses, the books of Salman Rushdie had stoked controversy. Rushdie saw his role as a writer "as including the function of antagonist to the state". [ 11 ] His second book Midnight's Children angered Indira Gandhi because it seemed to suggest "that Mrs. Gandhi was responsible for the death of her husband through neglect". [ 12 ]

4. thenovelteapod.substack.com › p › partition-novelsPartition Novels: Books about the Division of India and Pakistan

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   4 days ago · Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the moment of India’s independence. As he grows up, he learns that all his actions are magnified in events that affect the course of national affairs; his life becomes inseparable from the well-being of the nation.

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6. hypercritic.org › collection › passage-to-india-e-mA Passage to India by E. M. Forster | The echo of crumbling ...

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   1 day ago · Both in this book and Culture and Imperialism (1994), Said cites A Passage to India to expose how, ... Salman Rushdie’s best-known novel, Midnight Children, ...

7. www.dw.com › en › 75-years-of-frankfurt-book-fair75 years of Frankfurt Book Fair: World stage for protests

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   3 days ago · 09/25/2024 September 25, 2024. The Cold War, neo-Nazis, as well as Iran's fatwa on Salman Rushdie all had an impact on the Frankfurt Book Fair, which turns 75 this year.

8. www.nytimes.com › 2024/09/28 › booksBook Review: ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens,’ by Ina Garten ...

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   13 hours ago · 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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   Does Salman Rushdie still receive a valentine's card from Iran?

   • In 2007, Salman Rushdie reported that he still receives a "sort of Valentine 's card" from Iran each year on 14 February letting him know the country has not forgotten the vow to kill him. He was also quoted saying, "It's reached the point where it's a piece of rhetoric rather than a real threat".

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   Did Rushdie reclaim his life?

   • Late the next year, Rushdie declared, "I want to reclaim my life", and in December signed a declaration "affirming his Islamic faith and calling for Viking-Penguin, the publisher of The Satanic Verses, neither to issue the book in paperback nor to allow it to be translated".

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   Why did Rushdie write the Satanic Verses?

   • The title The Satanic Verses immediately sparked vehement protest against Rushdie's book. The title refers to a legend of Muhammad; a few verses were supposedly spoken by him as part of the Qur'an which praised the pagan goddesses of Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat.

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   What if Rushdie was killed?

   • The Independent newspaper worried that Muslim book burning demonstrations were "following the example of the Inquisition and Hitler 's National Socialists ", and that if Rushdie was killed, "it would be the first burning of a heretic in Europe in two centuries".

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10. www.washingtonpost.com › books › interactiveZadie Smith at home with her personal library - Washington Post

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    1 day ago · The oldest books in Smith’s possession, she suspects, are the Salman Rushdie novels from her mother’s flat. (“In the ’80s, everybody bought Rushdie. She was more an Alice Walker fan.”)