Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children-The Satanic Verses

Paperback, 208 pages

English language

Published Sept. 6, 2002 by Palgrave Macmillan.

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978-1-84046-253-1
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What a slog. Pretentious, long-winded, annoying. I found myself wondering how this could be the same author as [b:Victory City|61111246|Victory City|Salman Rushdie|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1670259879l/61111246.SY75.jpg|96232966]. (Likely answer: forty difficult years).

Maybe it would help if I knew more about India’s history and culture. Or if I liked florid ornate excessive circumlocutious language. Or if I were more tolerant of moronic religions and stupid vain shallow self-absorbed people. But that’s not me, and I am clearly not the target audience.

In a delicious coincidence, halfway through my reading I stumbled into a conversation with a remarkable young person who was drawing parallels between this book and [b:The God of Small Things|9777|The God of Small Things|Arundhati Roy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1590282886l/9777.SY75.jpg|810135] and who urged me to just not bother with this one, and rush to pick up that one. Unfortunately, it turns out I already tried and DNF’ed it... with similar gripes about flowery prose. …

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A winding story surrounding a Bangladeshi and an Indian (Bombay) actor. One, Gibreel, believing himself and potentially becoming the angel Gibreel (Gabriel); the other Saladin becoming a devil. The line between reality and fiction is blurred to the point that it ceases to exist. It brings the same question as "1984": if everyone believes something to be true, does that make it true? If everyone believes a religious event to have occurred, did it? If everyone believes a girl to be a prophet, is she?

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