Rushdie moved to New York, this novel follows a doll maker named Malik who has recently arrived in the city after leaving his wife and child in London. Rushdie’s 1981 masterpiece, ‘Midnight’s Children,’ in scope, inventiveness and ambition.” ‘ Fury’ (2001) Rushdie’s first novel since “The Satanic Verses,” Michiko Kakutani wrote in The Times, “traces the downward spiral of expectations experienced by India as post-independence hopes for democracy crumbled during the emergency rule declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975, and early dreams of pluralism gave way to sectarian violence and political corruption.” She went on to call it “a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel” and “a dark historical parable that rivals Mr. Rushdie, urging Muslims to kill the author, he went into hiding for years. After Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, found the book blasphemous and issued a fatwa against Mr. Rushdie on the global literary stage, his fourth novel, “The Satanic Verses,” brought him a painful level of visibility: The book, particularly its satirical depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, ignited a furor.
“What this fiction has been missing is a different kind of ambition, something just a little coarse, a hunger to swallow India whole and spit it out.” ‘ The Satanic Verses’ (1988) “For a long time it has seemed that novels from India write their own blurbs: poised, witty, delicate, sparkling,” our reviewer wrote. The novel, about modern India’s coming-of-age, is told through the life of Saleem Sinai, born at the very moment of India’s independence. Rushdie’s second novel received the Booker Prize, and became an international success.
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