9780593133170-059313317X-Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

ISBN-13: 9780593133170
ISBN-10: 059313317X
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Random House
Format: Hardcover 368 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780593133170
ISBN-10: 059313317X
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Random House
Format: Hardcover 368 pages

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Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 (ISBN-13: 9780593133170 and ISBN-10: 059313317X), written by authors Salman Rushdie, was published by Random House in 2021. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Authors (Arts & Literature) books. You can easily purchase or rent Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Authors books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.53.

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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

Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, 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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