Step Across This Line - Collected Non-Fiction, 1992-2002

Informationen zum Autor Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame , The Satanic Verses , Quichotte and Victory City . His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022. Klappentext The book ends with the lectures that give it its title - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live. Zusammenfassung The book ends with the lectures that give it its title - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live.

Product details

• Authors: Salman Rushdie, Rushdie Salman
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2003
• EAN: 9780099421870
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942187-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Biography and non-fiction prose