{"product_id":"imaginary-homelands-isbn-9780140140361","title":"Imaginary Homelands","description":"“Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie’s masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination.”-Michael Foot, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Salman Rushdie’s \u003ci\u003eImaginary Homelands\u003c\/i\u003e is an important record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects –the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie’s contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.Imaginary HomelandsIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Imaginary Homelands\u003cbr\u003e\"Errata\": Or, Unreliable Narration in \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Riddle of Midnight: India, August 1987\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Censorship\u003cbr\u003eThe Assassination of Indira Gandhi\u003cbr\u003eDynasty\u003cbr\u003eZia ul-Haq. 17 August 1988\u003cbr\u003eDaughter of the East\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"Commonwealth Literature\" Does Not Exist\u003cbr\u003eAnita Desai\u003cbr\u003eKipling\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHobson-Jobson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Outside the Whale\u003cbr\u003eAttenborough's Gandhi\u003cbr\u003eSatyajit Ray\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHandsworth Songs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Location of \u003ci\u003eBrazil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The New Empire within Britain\u003cbr\u003eAn Unimportant Fire\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome Front\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV. S. Naipaul\u003cbr\u003eThe Painter and the Pest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A General Election\u003cbr\u003eCharter 88\u003cbr\u003eOn Palestinian Identity: A Conversation with Edward Said\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Nadine Gordimer\u003cbr\u003eRian Malan\u003cbr\u003eNuruddin Farah\u003cbr\u003eKapuscinski's Angola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  John Berger\u003cbr\u003eGraham Greene\u003cbr\u003eJohn le Carre\u003cbr\u003eOn Adventure\u003cbr\u003eAt the Adelaide Festival\u003cbr\u003eTravelling with Chatwin\u003cbr\u003eChatwin's Travels\u003cbr\u003eJulian Barnes\u003cbr\u003eKazuo Ishiguro\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Michel Tournier\u003cbr\u003eItalo Calvino\u003cbr\u003eStephen Hawking\u003cbr\u003eAndrei Sakharov\u003cbr\u003eUmberto Eco\u003cbr\u003eGunter Grass\u003cbr\u003eHeinrich Boll\u003cbr\u003eSiegfried Lenz\u003cbr\u003ePeter Schneider\u003cbr\u003eChristoph Ransmayr\u003cbr\u003eMaurice Sendak and Wilhelm Grimm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Gabriel Garcia Marquez\u003cbr\u003eMario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The Language of the Pack\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDebrett Goes to Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eE. L. Doctorow\u003cbr\u003eMichael Herr: An Interview\u003cbr\u003eRichard Ford\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Carver\u003cbr\u003eIsaac Bashevis Singer\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Roth\u003cbr\u003eSaul Bellow\u003cbr\u003eThomas Pynchon\u003cbr\u003eKurt Vonnegut\u003cbr\u003eGrace Paley\u003cbr\u003eTravels with a Golden Ass\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Divine Supermarket\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Naipaul Among the Believers\u003cbr\u003e\"In God We Trust\"\u003cbr\u003eIn Good Faith\u003cbr\u003eIs Nothing Sacred?\u003cbr\u003eOne Thousand Days in a Balloon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in Bombay in 1947, \u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six novels, including \u003cb\u003eGrimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Ground Beneath Her Feet\u003c\/b\u003e, and a volume of essays, \u003cb\u003eImaginary Homelands\u003c\/b\u003e. His numerous literary prizes include the Booker Prize for \u003cb\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/b\u003e and the Whitbread Prize for \u003cb\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300337864933,"sku":"NP9780140140361","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140140361.jpg?v=1767729865","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/imaginary-homelands-isbn-9780140140361","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}