PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen previous novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). 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.
Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year... The length of the book, and its wealth of quotidian detail, serve to draw the reader into the life that Rushdie was forced to lead, to make his isolation and fear palpable * Washington Post * Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb * The Times * Salman Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air * New York Times Book Review * The literary map of India is about to be redrawn... Midnight’s Children sounds like a continent finding its voice * New York Times * With both candour and rich detail, and reminding us again of his knack for storytelling, [Knife] celebrates art and love over violence, resilience over acquiescence * i, *Books to Look Out For 2024* * A testament to endurance and the power of writing * Esquire, *Books to Look Out For 2024* * A gripping, personal and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art – and finding the strength to stand up again * News Letter, *Books to Look Out For 2024* *
