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the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
Salman Rushdie • Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Penguin Drop Caps)
“He was coming in hard and low: a squat missile. I got to my feet and watched him come. I didn't try to run. I was transfixed.
It had been thirty-three and a half years since the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's notorious death order against me and all those involved in the publication of The Satanic Verses, and during those years, I confess, I had som
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Salman Rushdie • Knife: The #1 Sunday Times bestselling account of survival, recovery, and the triumph of love over darkness
Tex Avery’s cartoon Billy Boy,
Salman Rushdie • Knife: The #1 Sunday Times bestselling account of survival, recovery, and the triumph of love over darkness
Salman Rushdie • Salman Rushdie · Imaginary Homelands
The Satanic Verses was my first experience of both magical realism and metafiction.
Ayad Akhtar • Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book 2020
the original Companions of the Prophet recast as sex-crazed purveyors of snuff films whom even Rushdie’s satirical genius could not have imagined.