Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous 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.
" Extraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come
out of the English-speaking world in this generation."
- The New York Review of Books
" The literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . .
Midnight's Children sounds like a continent finding its voice."
- The New York Times
" In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist- one
with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of
perpetual storytelling."
- The New Yorker
" A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie's prose snaps into playback and
flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of
unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India
herself."
- Newsweek
" Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is
a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic
brilliance."
- The Washington Post Book World
" Pure story- an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical,
descriptively witty charge of energy."
- Chicago Sun-Times
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