Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5231 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=135643 One of our most enduring inspirational works, The Post Office returns to North America with this handsomely illustrated new edition, offering hope and healing for us all. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, the greatest writer of modern India, wrote The Post Office in 1911, following a deep personal loss. In beautiful, simple prose, Tagore tells the story of a young boy, confined to his sickbed on doctors orders. Seated beside his window, he longs to join the world outside, where children play in the street and others scurry about, preoccupied with their daily routines. Greeting everyone who passes by his house, from the local curdseller, to the town watchman, to the lovely flower girl, Shudha, Amal - with his touching curiosity - teaches others lifes simple but essential truths while awaiting his own spiritual liberation.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=145865 Born in India but raised and educated in England, Salman Rushdie brings to his fiction a unique awareness of cultural difference and conflict. His complex, buoyant style, first recognized internationally with the Booker Prize-winning Midnights Children (1981), has brought him to the forefront of postmodern literature. The political and religious controversy Rushdies satiric work often generated exploded into open hostility when The Satanic Verses was published in 1988. James Harrisons lively study of Salman Rushdie argues that, in experimenting with different prose styles and narrative modes, as well as in his use of plot, satire, parody, and intrusive authorial commentary, Rushdie expresses his preference for a world of multiplicity, flexibility, and tolerance. Through a close analysis of the major fiction, including Grimus (1975), Shame (1983), and the irresistibly entertaining childrens book Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), Harrison clearly shows Rushdies opposition throughout his work to religious fundamentalist thought as a political force. Harrison discusses the relationship between Rushdies life and work, analyzes all the novels and perceptively and sympathetically assesses the writers conflict with Muslim and Hindu religious authorities. This invaluable study provides a much needed insight into Salman Rushdies writings and the exception that has been taken to them by Muslim fundamentalists.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=201640 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=136676 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=62488