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Book SynopsisSalman Rushdie is the author of sixteen novels, including
Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker),
The Satanic Verses, and
Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
Trade ReviewA vindication of the rights of fiction...His story-telling powers are alive and well - his ingenuity, wit, charm and his restless talent for the unexpected * Sunday Times *
Literary magic * Literary Review *
The most original imagination writing today * Nadine Gordimer *
Scheherazade meets
Star Trek in these well-honed miniatures from the maestro of the cross-cultural blockbuster * Independent *
Home in neither, but poised somewhere in between - Salman Rushdie's volume of short stories on this theme is deft, inventive, entertaining * Financial Times *
