“Dazzling . . . Modern thriller, Ramayan epic, courtroom drama, slapstick comedy, wartime adventure, political satire, village legend—they’re all blended here magnificently.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Absorbing . . . Everywhere [Rushdie] takes us there is both love and war, in strange and terrifying combinations, painted in swaying, swirling, world-eating prose that annihilates the...

"Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. Frankly, she's over it. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She's determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means. Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?)...

Hilde Higgins has an unexplainable dislike of clowns. Trouble is, she's fallen for a handsome stockbroker who moonlights as a clown at the children's hospital. When two members of Clowns for Christ end up dead, Hilde's boyfriend becomes a suspect for murder. Has she misjudged the man she thought Adam Sawyer to be? Can Hilde solve the mystery before a Kansas twister blows all the evidence away?

"Bienvenido a Derry, Maine. Es una ciudad pequeña, un lugar tan conmovedoramente familiar como tu propia ciudad natal. Solo que en Derry ocurren cosas muy extrañas. Eran siete adolescentes cuando conocieron el horror por primera vez. Ahora son hombres y mujeres adultos que han salido al mundo en búsqueda de éxito y felicidad. Pero la promesa que hicieran 28 años atrás los reúne en el mismo lugar donde enfrentaron, de adolescentes, a una criatura...