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Books by Salman Rushdie mentioned on podcasts
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The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie is a controversial postmodern novel that explores themes of migration, identity, and religious faith, famously resulting in a fatwa calling for the author's death upon its publication.
Critiqued“And also, I'm mad I'm mad at the FAWA because it made me read that terrible book. Was it a bad book? It wasn't that good. There was I would have not have read it if there wasn't anything around it.”
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Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children is a celebrated novel by Salman Rushdie that explores the magical realist history of India from its independence and partition onward, touching upon regional themes such as Kashmir.
Discussed“because it began in 1981 with the publication and success of midnight children which was important to me for a number of reasons first of all because”
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Knife
Knife by Salman Rushdie is a powerful memoir detailing the author's recovery and reflections following the harrowing 2022 physical attack against him.
Discussed“and his latest book knife is about the attack it's about his life it's about his marriage”
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Joseph Anton
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie is a powerful, third-person memoir chronicling the harrowing decade the author spent living in hiding under a religious fatwa following the publication of The Satanic Verses.
Discussed“then I think you've sort of admitted to giving you've written a sort of autobiography before a memoir called Joseph Anton which you did in the third person”
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Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie is an imaginative fantasy novel that offers a modern literary riff on the classic collection One Thousand and One Nights.
Discussed“then at number nine Solon rushy uh is on the hard cover fiction list with 2 years 8 months and 28 nights which is uh for the mathematically inclined it it amounts to 1,1 Knights”
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Languages of Truth
Discussed“Dwight you read a collection of essays by Salman Rashi I did do I have to talk about it”
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Quichotte
Discussed“the other finalists included Salon rushy he was on the short list for his new novel kote”
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Shalimar The Clown
Discussed“and I've written a lot about Kashmir I wrote about it in Midnight's Children I wrote about it in shalomar the clown”
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Victory City
Discussed“it's going to come out right around the time that this podcast drops and it is called Victory City and it's by salmon rushy”
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