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Step Across This Line

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099421870

  • Length: 464  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 319g

  • RRP: £11.99

Step Across This Line

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy.

In a central section, 'Messages from the Plague Years', Rushdie focuses on the fight against the Iranian fatwa, presenting texts both personal and political, which show for the first time how it was to live through those days. Rushdie's columns for the New York Times confront current issues - Kashmir, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Islam and the West - as well as lighter topics such as reality TV, sport and sleaze. The book ends with the lectures that give it its title - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099421870

  • Length: 464  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 319g

  • RRP: £11.99

Reviews

  • This impressive book limits itself to neither the light-hearted nor the undisturbably grave

    Sunday Times

  • He has a great deal to say-a likeable, readable and profoundly gripping book

    Scotland on Sunday

  • Ten years of Salman Rushdie's incisive non-fiction

    Independent

  • Rushdie has used all his experience and literary skills to defend what is most worth defending: our freedom to think, and say, and write what we want, without fear for our lives

    Sunday Telegraph

  • Rushdie is the most assiduous reader of other people's work, a true and tireless man of literature...a total believer in the power of the word

    Observer

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About the Author

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels – Grimus, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, The Golden House and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for hte Booker Prize) – and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of non-fiction – Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line – and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

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