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2017., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Rus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, reinventing themselves as emperors living in a lavish house in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society, even as Nero Golden continues to raise huge buildings carrying his name in gold letters. The story of the powerful Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, Rene, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. Rene chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, and unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful former model, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work that could ruin Nero Golden forever.
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c1999., Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Rus Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1991., Granta Books ; In association with Penguin Books Call No: 814 R953 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2012., Knopf Canada Call No: Bio R953j Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team.
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2012., Random House Audio Call No: CD Bio R953j Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team.
![Joseph Anton [CD] : a memoir](/Library/images/~imageCT75384.JPG "Joseph Anton [CD] : a memoir")
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-- Meditations after an attempted murder.2024., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: NEW Bio R952k Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From writer Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation of life, loss, love, art--and finding the strength to stand up again.
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2010., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Rus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A dazzling story told for the love of story by the greatest of storytellers gives us a novel of wisdom and pleasure for all ages, in which a young boy must battle his way through a dangerous world in order to save his father.On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay, a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through The Magic World, encountering a slew of phantasmagorical obstacles along the way, to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task.
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c1995., A.A. Knopf Call No: Fic Rus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Everyman's library Volume: 217
![Midnight's children [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74717.JPG "Midnight's children [eBook]")
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2019., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Rus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Quichotte, an aging travelling salesman obsessed with TV, is on a quest for love. Unfortunately, his daily diet of reality TV, sitcoms, films, soaps, comedies and dramas has distorted his ability to separate fantasy from reality. He wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence, while obsessively writing love letters to a celebrity he knows only through his screen. Together the two innocents set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Quichotte's story is told by Brother, a mediocre spy novelist in the midst of a midlife crisis, and as the stories of Brother and Quichotte intertwine, we are taken on a wild, picaresque journey through a familiar country on the edge of moral and spiritual collapse."--Publisher.
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[2015]., Random House Call No: Fic Rus Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Once upon a time, in a world just like ours, there came "the time of the strangenesses." Reason receded and the loudest, most illiberal voices reigned. A simple gardener began to levitate, and a powerful djinn -- also known as the Princess of Fairyland -- raised an army composed entirely of her semi-magical great-great-great-grandchildren. A baby was born with the ability to see corruption in the faces of others. The ghosts of two philosophers, long dead, began arguing once more. And a battle for the kingdom of Fairyland was waged throughout our world for 1,001 nights -- or, to be more precise, for two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a masterful, playfully enchanting meditation on the power of love and the importance of rationality, replete with flying carpets and dynastic intrigue"--
