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Title: Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Author: RUSHDIE SALMAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/06/2021
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie’s most piercingly analytical views yet on the
evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and
fearless imaginationSalman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order,
illuminating deep 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 own 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 deeply 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, often by telling vivid, sometimes humorous stories of his own
personal encounters with them, whether on the page or in person. He delves deeper than
ever before into the nature of \”truth,\” revels in the vibrant malleability of language, and the
creative lines that can join art and life, and he looks anew at migration, multiculturalism and
censorship. The ideas, true stories, and arguments presented here are at once revelatory,
funny, and eye-opening, enlivened on every page by Rushdie’s signature wit and dazzling
voice, making this volume a genuine pleasure to read.
ISBN: 9781787331945
Pages: 320
Edition: 01