Step Across This Line Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. from Part IV With 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 witabout 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.

Salman Rushdie is the award-winning author of eight novels: <b>Fury</b>, <b>The Ground Beneath Her Feet</b>, <b>The Moor’s Last Sigh</b>, <b>Midnight’s Children</b> (for which he won the Booker Prize and the “Booker of Bookers”), <b>Shame</b>, <b>The Satanic Verses</b>, <b>Grimus</b>, and <b>Haroun and the Sea of Stories</b>; one collection of short stories, <b>East, West</b>; a book of reportage, <b>The Jaguar Smile</b>, and an earlier collection of essays, <b>Imaginary Homelands</b>. He lives in New York and London.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>