After all, he is no mere observer, but an “imagineer,” a co-creator, as it were, of the Goldens’ story. The burning was carried out by a group of Muslims led by the city’s senior imam, or religious leader. (Trigger warning: The gun talks.) According to Salman Rushdie’s new novel, most of what we know about genies is wrong, which makes me worry that I may have spent too much time watching Barbara Eden. Still Crazy After All These Years Date: January 14, 1990, Sunday, Late Edition - Final Section 7; Page 1, Column 1; Book Review Desk Byline: By SALMAN RUSHDIE; Salman Rushdie, the author of ''The Satanic Verses'' and other novels, is completing a new work of fiction. Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games More The Observer. Salman Rushdie wrote the following in January after a public burning of copies of The Satanic Verses took place in Bradford, West Yorkshire, which has a Muslim population of 50,000. Rave Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review. Salman Rushdie is releasing this new novel, The Golden House, after almost two years of his most recent book. His quest is a long shot, and there’s a gun involved. Book Review: The Golden House by Salman Rushdie. The narrator permits his filmmaker’s imagination to rove freely. ‘And love will find a way.’” Say his name like this: Key-shot. Quichotte by Salman Rushdie has an overall rating of Positive based on 33 book reviews. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's next novel, Shame, also won critical acclaim and international awards. A bit less kaleidoscopic, but no less hyperbolic, Rushdie's challenging new novel again relies heavily on mythology. See the full list here. His quest is a long shot, and there’s a gun involved. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. “You want to be able to walk into a bookstore and say, ‘From here to here, it’s me July 15, 2008 • In his new novel, The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie blends history and fantasy to recount the tale of a lost princess. Malcolm Bradley in The Modern British Novel (1994) pronounced the book "a new start for the late-twentieth-century novel." Book reviews. The book … Salman Rushdie's The Golden House: Sunday Book Review; Tahira Kashyap to Launch New Book 'The 12 Commandments of Being a Woman' Reviving the Indian Economy: Montek Singh Ahluwalia's Method of Combating 'Very Serious Slowdown' From Konyaks of Nagaland to Kurumbas of Nilgiris: A Look Into The Private lives of Isolated Indian Tribes Lead: LEAD: VINELAND The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie gave us a modern rendering of the Orpheus story set in the jet-setting world of pop music. [ This book was one of our most anticipated titles of March. “What you hope to do is leave behind a shelf of books,” Salman Rushdie once said, quoting Martin Amis. Say his name like this: Key-shot. The Golden House is Salman Rushdie’s latest novel about a family hit by 26/11 attacks in Mumbai to be published in late 2017.