Life is fury. Fury—sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal—drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise—the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent,...
Flapping Eagle, a young Indian, receives the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. Tiring of the burden of eternal life, he sets out on a monumental search for the mystical Calf Island, where he can rejoin the human race. His journey...
Salmans Rušdi
Lūka un dzīvības uguns
Reiz skaistā, zvaigžņotā naktī Kahani pilsētā, Alifbējas zemē, notika viena baisma lieta: divpadsmit gadu vecā Lūkas tēvs — stāstnieks Rašīds — pēkšņi un neizskaidrojami iekrita...
The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
Whitbread Prize (nominee)
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards (nominee)
Los Angeles, 1991. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is murdered in broad daylight on his...
**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_**
On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an...