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Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Salman Rushdie is celebrated as “a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker), illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time.
Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, Languages of Truth chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual engagement with a period of momentous cultural shifts. Immersing the reader in a wide variety of subjects, he delves into the nature of storytelling as a human need, and what emerges is, in myriad ways, a love letter to literature itself. Rushdie explores what the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison mean to him, whether on the page or in person. He delves deep into the nature of “truth,” revels in the vibrant malleability of language and the creative lines that can join art and life, and looks anew at migration, multiculturalism, and censorship.
Enlivened on every page by Rushdie’s signature wit and dazzling voice, Languages of Truth offers the author’s most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us on an exhilarating tour of his own exuberant and fearless imagination.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593394212
- File size: 383623 KB
- Duration: 13:19:12
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- English
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Reviews
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The narration of these essays, revised speeches, reviews, and ephemera begins with Rushdie himself, who perhaps wanted his own voice--British inflected and cultured--to tell the stories of the "wonder books" of his Bombay youth that influenced his "fabulist" fiction. His finely honed narration style allows him to move smoothly from wit to wisdom. British actor Raj Ghatak then takes over in a magisterial tone, giving a thoughtful performance and capturing Rushdie's varied preoccupations and passions: literature, art, friends, and a rich helping of literary soul mates, such as Harold Pinter, Philip Roth, and Samuel Beckett. He writes movingly about his experience with the COVID-19 virus. This collection, written between 2003 and 2020, reveals a keen observer and an eloquent writer. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
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