For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IVWith astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz , and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.
Author: Salman Rushdie (all their books in stock)
Genre: Literary Collections, Essays
Format: Hardback
Published: 2002
Pages: 454
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780224061605