Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel by Salman Rushdie ISBN 13: 9780679783473

Salman Rushdie is the author of ten previous novels— Grimus, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and, recently, the Booker of all Bookers), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, and The Enchantress of Florence —and one collection of short stories, East, West. He has also published three works of nonfiction— The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991, and Step Across This Line —and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008 . He is a former president of American PEN.