Saturday, June 2, 2012

Salman Rushdie's latest triumph: Midnight’s Children rides again but critics are baffled

Salman Rushdie's latest triumph: Midnight’s Children rides again but critics are baffled

By Hasan Suroor

“It was all just a trick. My first novel [Grimus] had done less than zero and had been trashed. I had four or five other unpublishable novels, so I felt like a failed writer. At the time Ian [McEwan], Martin [Amis] and Julian [Barnes] had had great successes. All my contemporaries were like Ferraris, leaving me at the starting grid,” he said in an interview in Guardian’s G2 section.

http://www.newageislam.com/salman-rushdie-s-latest-triumph--midnight%E2%80%99s-children-rides-again-but-critics-are-baffled/islamic-personalities/d/238


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