

The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Author: Salman Rushdie
Narrator: Steven Crossley
Unabridged: 27 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/23/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Salman Rushdie
Narrator: Steven Crossley
Unabridged: 27 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/23/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Knew it was my favorite book ever as soon as I read it. Read all the others I'd said that about again just to be sure. It was. Rushdie's polyglot wordplay and his gift for pun (Why is it that multi-lingual writers like Rushdie and Nabokov are the most exceptional punsters?) are irrepressible. It's a......more
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Ezeknek az epikus nagyregényeknek az íróit hajlamos vagyok úgy elképzelni, mint virtuóz kutyasétáltatót, akit épp több tucat eb rángat pórázon, miközben megkísérli velük megkerülni a háztömböt. Ezek az ebek az alaptémák (szerelem, történelem, mitologikus áthallások, stb.) illetve a szereplők metafor......more