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Languages of Truth : Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 authorSalman 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 ma
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780593133170
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (424 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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