{"product_id":"languages-of-truth-essays-2003-2020-9780593133194","title":"Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020","description":"\u003cb\u003eNewly 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 author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSalman Rushdie is celebrated as \"a master of perpetual storytelling\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, \u003ci\u003eLanguages of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Rushdie's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnlivened on every page by Rushdie's signature wit and dazzling voice, \u003ci\u003eLanguages of Truth \u003c\/i\u003eoffers the author's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593133194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Salman Rushdie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42132519583925,"sku":"9780593133194","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5886da2d-269b-4f26-9285-5f37715c9abc.jpg?v=1652814127","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/languages-of-truth-essays-2003-2020-9780593133194","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}