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"Step Across This Line" compiles Salman Rushdie’s essays, speeches and articles, revealing the mind behind his fiction through probing commentary on human values, cultural frontiers and current events. The volume includes the 2002 Yale Tanner Lecture on human values, a diary entry on his return to India, and a series of letters titled "Messages From the Plague Years," detailing life under the fatwa. Rushdie’s prose remains engaging and thoughtful, offering readers an intimate invitation into his thoughts on literature, politics and free expression.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Salman Rushdie
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