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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 Review'A staggering achievement, brilliantly enjoyable' Nadine Gordimer
'A masterpiece'
Sunday Times'A novel of metamorphosis, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb'
The Times'Damnably entertaining and fiendishly ingenious. One of the very few current writers whose works are attempts at the great Bible, "the bright book of life" '
London Review of BooksA great novelist, a master of perpetual storytelling. * V S Pritchett *
