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and the Kashmiri Sanskrit compendium called Katha-sarit-sagar (the “Ocean of the Streams of Story”).
Salman Rushdie • Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
Salman Rushdie • Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Penguin Drop Caps)
“He was coming in hard and low: a squat missile. I got to my feet and watched him come. I didn't try to run. I was transfixed.
It had been thirty-three and a half years since the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's notorious death order against me and all those involved in the publication of The Satanic Verses, and during those years, I confess, I had som
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Salman Rushdie • Knife: The #1 Sunday Times bestselling account of survival, recovery, and the triumph of love over darkness
Yet their power endures; and it does so, I believe, because for all their cargo of monsters and magic, these stories are entirely truthful about human nature (even when in the form of anthropomorphic animals). All human life is here, brave and cowardly, honorable and dishonorable, straight-talking and conniving, and the stories ask the greatest and
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Tex Avery’s cartoon Billy Boy,