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    Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
    Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
    Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
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    Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

    Written by Salman Rushdie

    Narrated by Salman Rushdie and Raj Ghatak

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    Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century—including many texts never previously in print—by the Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateMay 25, 2021
    ISBN9780593394205
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    Salman Rushdie

    Salman Rushdie nacido en Bombay en 1947, es autor de las novelas Grimus, Hijos de la medianoche (Premio Booker), Vergüenza, Los versos satánicos, Harún y el Mar de las Historias, El último suspiro del Moro, El suelo bajo sus pies, Furia, Shalimar el payaso, La encantadora de Florencia, Luka y el Fuego de la Vida, Dos años, ocho meses y veintiocho noches (Seix Barral, 2015), La decadencia de Nerón Golden (Seix Barral, 2017) y Quijote (Seix Barral, 2020). Es también autor del libro de cuentos Oriente, Occidente y de las obras de no ficción Patrias imaginarias, La sonrisa del jaguar, Pásate de la raya, Joseph Anton y Los lenguajes de la verdad (Seix Barral, 2023). Ha recibido, entre otros muchos galardones, el Premio Whitbread, los premios al Autor del Año en Gran Bretaña y Alemania, el Premio al Mejor Libro Extranjero en Francia, el Gran Premio de Budapest de Literatura, el Premio Grinzane Cavour, el Premio Crucigrama en la India y el Premio Nacional de las Artes de Estados Unidos. Hijos de la medianoche fue nombrado el mejor Booker de la historia del premio en una votación pública. Abanderado en la lucha por la libertad de expresión, es comandante de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras francesa. Su obra ha sido traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas.

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      Engaging, stylish, beautifully written essays on language, storytelling, authors; essays derived from PEN related speeches, introductions, commencement addresses; essays on visual artists. Introduced and reintroduced me to wonderful authors and artists, and engaging ideas. Highly recommended.
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