Conversations with Salman Rushdie (Literary Conversations)
Indian novelist Rushdie gained international attention beyond the literary world when, in 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued afatwa, an edict calling for Rushdie's death because of perceived anti-Muslim sentiment expressed in his explosive novelThe Satanic Verses. Regardless of the notoriety that the sentence placed on him engendered, Rushdie's status as a major writer and his influence on other contemporary writers of fiction in English have long been established. The latest volume in this publisher's series of informative collections of interviews with significant authors gathers published conversations with Rushdie from the early 1980s to the present. Rushdie is a forthright interviewee; what he doesn't want to discuss, he won't (and that happens only infrequently), but in the majority of instances he answers questions with thought and detail. Topics covered include deeply literary ones, such as the importance of digressions in the structure of a novel, as well as more mundane ones: for example, love as the central issue in most people's lives.Brad HooperCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.