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Esta es la historia de Saleem Sinai, nacido en Bombay al filo de la medianoche del 15 de agosto de 1947, en el momento mismo en que la India, entre fuegos artificiales y multitudes, alcanza su independencia. El destino de Saleem queda inexorablemente unido al de su país, y sus peripecias personales reflejarán siempre la evolución política de la India o serán reflejadas por ella. Hijos de la medianoche es una asombrosa novela que combina magistralmente magia y humor, compromiso político, fantasía y humanidad.

A raíz de una insignificante batalla entre dos reinos anclados en el olvido de la India del siglo XIV, una niña de nueve años tieneun inesperado encuentro que cambiará el curso de la historia. Tras presenciar la muerte de su madre, la niña, Pampa Kampana, seconvierteen receptáculo de una diosa que empieza a hablar por su boca. La diosa le otorga poderes que escapan a la comprensión de PampaKampana y le confía que vaaser fundamental en la erección de una gran ciudad llamada Bisnaga, literalmente “ciudad de la victoria”, la maravilla del mundo.

La escuela del mundo es una visión radical del futuro de la educación y, al mismo tiempo, la historia personal de un hombre que ha apostado por el aprendizaje personalizado, la interacción humana y el pensamiento alternativo.

Por primera vez, y con una franqueza conmovedora, Rushdie habla sobre los traumáticos acontecimientos vividos el 12 de agosto de 2022, respondiendo con la fuerza del arte a la violencia ejercida contra él, y recordándonos el poder que tienen las palabras para otorgar sentido a lo impensable.

Tras el ataque sufrido en 2022, en el que casi pierde la vida y que relató en su anterior libro, Cuchillo, «nuestro Scheherazade»—como lo llamó Ursula K. Le Guin—regresa a la ficción. En estos cinco relatos, la desbordante imaginación de Salman Rushdie adopta un tono crepuscular. Vuelve a sus orígenes, a las calles del Bombay de Hijos de la medianoche, donde se reencuentra con viejos personajes de la novela de 1981, y completa un recorrido por los tres países donde ha vivido: India, Inglaterra y Estados Unidos.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “Salman Rushdie’s great grasp of the human tragicomedy—its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors—has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language.”—Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe “Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically...

Un avión secuestrado estalla a gran altura sobre el canal de la Mancha. Dos supervivientes caen al mar: Gibrel Farishta, un legendario galán cinematográfico, y Saladin Chamcha, el hombre de las mil voces, autodidacta y anglófilo furibundo. Consiguen llegar a una playa inglesa y notan unos extraños cambios: uno ha adquirido una aureola y el otro ve con horror cómo crece el vello de sus piernas, los pies se le convierten en cascos y las sienes se abultan...

Brought to you by Penguin. From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in...

The Internet Revolution: Power, Culture, and the Future of Society" explores the profound and transformative effects of the internet on various aspects of modern life. This comprehensive examination delves into how the internet has reshaped personal relationships, work-life integration, and social norms, while also addressing the rise of online communities and digital communication. The book investigates the dual role of internet memes in value expression and cultural identity, and highlights the global challenges of digital divides and cybersecurity.

Mr. Rushdie, the author of Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, reads from his newest novel, Shalimar the Clown.

Brought to you by Penguin. She will breathe a new empire into life – but all worlds can escape their creator… In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a...

The rain in Aloisville is never-ending, and no one can remember when it started. There's not much they can remember. With every drop that hits their skin, a bit of memory is washed away. Stay too long in the wet, and you'll lose everything you used to be. By the time Laverne begins keeping a journal, the small town she calls home has been irreparably changed. Every drop of water is dangerous, from leaky faucets to the near-constant rainfall, and a careless trip outside can mean a life down the drain.

Il quintetto di racconti che compone L'undicesima ora ci offre una caleidoscopica quanto affascinante esplorazione della vita, della morte e di ciò che viene messo a fuoco quando ci si trova alle prese con l'atto finale della nostra vicenda umana. Nel sud narra di una coppia di anziani litigiosi, Junior e Senior, e della loro personalissima tragedia privata che si consuma nel bel mezzo di un momento di calamità nazionale.

The author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses talks with Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) about his long-anticipated, enthralling and provocative new memoir of his exile under the fatwa that sentenced him to death in 1989.

சல்மாவின் நாவல் முழுமையாகப் பெண்ணுலகத்தால் நிரம்பியிருக்கிறது. புற உலகம் அறியாத பெண்களின் உள் உலகத்தை...

இந்நாவலில் நாயகர்கள் / நாயகிகள் / வில்லன்கள் என எவருமில்லை. அந்த விதத்தில் மிகவும் ஜனநாயகப் பண்பு கொண்டதாக...

Marriage is a natural developmental stage for most adults but the process of getting married and achieving a successful, long-lasting marriage can be fraught with challenges for Muslims in North America. The authors, Salma Elkadi Abugideiri and Imam Mohamed Hag Magid, present a unique approach that reflects 40 years of combined experience in counseling couples.

This little book discusses paths to address environmental conflicts based on a restorative justice perspective of imagining, practicing, and living justice. It proposes an approach that understands the relationship between humankind and environment beyond the narrow conception of homo economicus, considering the human beings in their social, political, economic, historic, spiritual, cognitive, emotional, aesthetic, and ecological dimensions, as well as in their connection with nature and non-human entities.

'A dazzling modern mythology of our oldest stories, richly imagined by the very best of Irish writers' DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA, author of A Ghost in the Throat 'Dark, lyrical and exhilarating, these stories feel both timeless and urgently modern' LOUISE O'NEILL, author of Idol Featuring new and...

Maaijke, a young Dutch woman, born in 1815 in Spakenburg, vividly imagines herself into other places and times, but when her concentration lapses, she is transported back to her home and to the time from which she came. On one of her travels, she falls in love with Peter, a U.S. Navy pilot and Vietnam veteran. After an intense but brief affair, her focus flags and Peter, unaware of her abilities and why she disappeared, mourns her absence. Five years later, Peter finds Maaijke again who tells him they have a son. And as before, she suddenly disappears.