Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

ISBN: 059313317X

Author: Rushdie, Salman

Condition: Used

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 authorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssaySalman Rushdie is celebrated as a master of perpetual storytelling (The New Yorker), 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 Rushdies 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 Rushdies signature wit and dazzling voice, Languages of Truth offers the authors 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.