About the Book

For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. --from Part IV
With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. "Step Across This Line" concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie's fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit--about soccer, "The Wizard of Oz," and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie's words, a "wake-up call" about the way we live, and think, now.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 416 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Modern Library (Sep. 30th, 2003)

ISBN-10: 0679783490

ISBN-13: 9780679783497

Dimensions: 5.16 x 8.04 x 0.82 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.65 lbs

• Categories: Literary Collections Essays General Literary Criticism