Salman Rushdie

I have failed to read all of Rushdie's books but this new one, a fantasical one, intrigues me. His interview surprized me as he is essentially without belief at all, and has lived in New York City, which he feels has embraced him for more than a decade.  Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights has a Sherazade theme    As Joyce Carol Oates says, " This is history, jubilantly mixed with postmodernistic magic realism.  "  Ursula Le Guin says, "Brillinant...Rushdie's sumptous mixture of history and fable is magnifent."  I received an autographed copy at the Nourse Theater lecture of Arts and Lecture Series, and plan to read it. At last, I have seen and heard(from row 2) one of the great figures of our time.




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