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Languages of truth

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From ‘Best of the Booker’ winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture. Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, including several never previously in print, ‘Languages of Truth’ chronicles a period of momentous cultural shifts.

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From ‘Best of the Booker’ winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture.

‘One of the greatest writers of our age’ Neil Gaiman

Across a wide variety of subjects, Rushdie delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need and what emerges is a love letter to literature itself. Throughout, he shares his personal encounters, on the page and in person, with storytellers from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and revels in the creative lines that can join art and life. Rushdie considers, too, the nature of truth and looks afresh at migration, multiculturalism and censorship.

‘Essential reading… Powerful’ Financial Times

‘Rushdie is vital, expansive, the critic as storyteller, championing his subjects with gusto’ TLS

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Weight 0.295 kg
Dimensions 19.5 × 12.8 × 2.5 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

320

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

828.9209 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K