Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, KBE (English pronunciation: /sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/[1]; born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He achieved notability with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of The Satanic Verses controversy, with protests from Muslims in several countries. Some of the protests were violent, with Rushdie facing death threats and a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, in February 1989.
He was appointed a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to literature" in June 2007.[2] He holds the rank Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. He began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University in 2007.[3] In May 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2008, The Times ranked Rushdie thirteenth on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[4] His latest novel is The Enchantress of Florence, published in June 2008.[5]
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell - we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.
推荐理由:鲁西迪虽然是因为《撒旦诗篇》被下了追杀令而成为世界焦点,但他文学上的成就,却是这本被誉为“英语世界罕见的完美小说”的《午夜之子》。一个孟买小孩诞生于印度脱离英国独立的神圣时刻(1947年8月15日午夜零点),他受到尼赫鲁总理的祝福。本书即是这个叙述者庞...
評分这本书只用了具有神开辟天地的恢弘气势的前两节就让我激动不已,看完第一部的时候我已经将拉什迪拥戴到那些让我崇敬的伟大作家行列之中,而读罢厚达600页(繁体中文)的全书后,确认这位在孟买度过童年、在英国成长起来的作家心中装着整个印度,外加世界文学的最丰厚遗产...
評分◎鲁茫 未能免俗。几乎也是一气呵成看完了《午夜之子》。已经很久没有这种状态,因为太多的未完成排队似的摆在书架上。也许我该先吐槽,在九月买书买得太多,即使在这个亢奋之月的最后一个晚上,京东又让我“背叛”了自己一次,同时再次告诫自己:最后一次了,绝不能再有“剁...
評分英国作家萨尔曼•鲁西迪的每部作品几乎都是布克奖热门入围作品。 《午夜之子》于1981年获布克奖,1993年,鲁西迪就又凭借此作品获得 “布克奖中的特别奖”,此奖当时为纪念布克奖25周年额外增设。2008年他又凭借《午夜之子》获得“最佳布克奖”,这个特别奖项旨在庆...
評分很特彆的小說。在繼承瞭英國文學傳統(狄更斯,康拉德最為明顯)的同時,創造性的書寫瞭印度二十世紀的曆史(個人記憶與集體曆史的並置)。可惜的是,作者沒有擺脫essentialism的邏輯,在英美主流文壇上屢獲好評,“政治正確”的因素不可否認。難怪讀完總感覺有那麼一點兒彆扭。BTW,說起魔幻現實主義的作品,迄今為止我還是認為《百年孤獨》為最佳。
评分讀完一本傑作就像是一場友誼的終結。
评分A three-week non-stop reading. Mesmerizing and magnificent. Salman Rushdie is a master of storytelling.
评分4.5星,文筆好得沒法說,想象力豐富,可讀性極強,但後麵讓人感覺略失望有爛尾嫌疑
评分overrated
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