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2. The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Wikipedia

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   The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's sixth novel. Published in 1999, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth, with rock music replacing Orpheus's lyre. The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to which he attaches an endless series of references.

3. The Million Dollar Hotel (soundtrack) - Wikipedia

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   Composition. The lyrics of "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" were written by Salman Rushdie, based on his book of the same name.The soundtrack version of the song is a different mix from the one used in the film, which was not released commercially.

4. The Ground Beneath Her Feet (song) - Wikipedia

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   The Ground Beneath Her Feet (song) " The Ground Beneath Her Feet " is a song by Irish rock band U2. It appears in the 2000 film The Million Dollar Hotel, which was produced by U2 lead vocalist Bono, and the song was included on the film's soundtrack. Author Salman Rushdie is credited as the lyricist, as the words are taken from his 1999 book ...

5. The Moor's Last Sigh - Wikipedia

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   The title is taken from the story of Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Granada, who is also mentioned frequently in the book. The spot from which Boabdil last looked upon Granada after surrendering is known as Puerto del Suspiro del Moro ("Pass of the Moor's Sigh"). The mother of the narrator and an artist friend of the mother's each make a ...

6. All That You Can't Leave Behind - Wikipedia

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   In Japan, Australia, Ireland and the UK, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (3:44) is a bonus track at the end. Various limited edition copies included a bonus disc with either "Always", "Summer Rain", or "Big Girls are Best". The 7 EP was subsequently released in the US, collecting these B-sides previously unavailable in that region.

7. Kilgore Trout - Wikipedia

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   Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007). Trout is a notably unsuccessful author of paperback science fiction novels. "Trout" was inspired by the name of the author Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction. Vonnegut was amused by the notion of a person with the ...

8. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights - Wikipedia

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   After a great storm, slits between the world of jinns and the world of men are opened and strange phenomena emerge as dark jinnis invade the Earth. The jinnia princess and her children thus need to fight to defend the Earth and the humans from them, the Grand Ifrits. All the while, the Great Philosopher Averroes (Ibn Rushd) and the famous ...

9. Category:Novels by Salman Rushdie - Wikipedia

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