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Languages of Truth

Essays 2003-2020

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Languages of Truth

By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Salman Rushdie, Raj Ghatak
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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 listeners on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture.

Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, including several never previously published, Languages of Truth chronicles a period of momentous cultural shifts. 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, Rushdie shares his personal encounters, on the page and in person, with storytellers from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison, and revels in the creative lines that can join art and life.

Always attuned to the malleability of language, Rushdie considers the nature of truth, and looks anew at migration, multiculturalism and censorship. Written with the author's signature wit and energy, Languages of Truth offers pleasure and insight in equal measure, confirming Rushdie's place as one of the most original and important thinkers of our time.

©2021 Salman Rushdie (P)2021 Penguin Audio Essays Social Sciences Nonfiction Storytelling

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I wish Rushdie himself had read more - Ghatak worse than a computer voice!

Great book - terrible reader

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I so enjoyed the stimulating conversational style of the author on writing and discourse on literary social and political topics.
Mr Rushdie talks with knowledge and enthusiam about his passion for literature and his own endeavours in this field.

The many insightful comments to a wide range of authors and their works.

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l loved it. Intelligent, educated,well narrated. Interesting and not pompous.I got to like Mr. Rushdie. He had been attacked. I wish him well.

I now like the writer as much as I love his books

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