He is a writer of magic realism which is quite similar to fantasy
TLDR...
My personal favorites...
The Moor's Last Sigh (1975)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)
The essential Rushdie novels...
Midnight's Children (1981)
Shame (1983)
Shalimar the Clown (2005)
Quichotte (2019)
For the Rushdie enthusiast only...
Grimus (1975)
The Satanic Verses (1988)
Fury (2001)
The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty Eight Nights (2015)
The Golden House (2017)
Salman Rushdie is for people who...
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enjoy genre-defying magical realism
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enjoy indulgent, decadent prose
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enjoy post-colonial literature
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enjoy dense, erudite, literary fiction
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enjoy slow reads
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enjoy fierce intertextuality
-
enjoy left-leaning political views
This review will be spoiler-free.
In the year 1981, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children was published. That novel won the Booker Prize and would be considered by many his greatest literary achievement. The year is now 2021; Midnight's Children enjoys its fortieth anniversary and Salman Rushdie, who still lives, enjoys a body of fiction that right now numbers at twelve novels. This pandemic era, while for many a tragic and irretrievable period, had its bright spots. 2021’s brightest spot for me was falling in love with literature all over again. Salman Rushdie saved me. That is hyperbole of course. Salman Rushdie never saved me. I have never met the man. Our acquaintance is limited to me reading his books. Alas, his work, when I discovered him, was a vivid flare that helped me fend off my own breed of personal darkness in these trying times.
In the span of only a few months’ time, I read all twelve of his novels. This is both a review of each individual work and a comprehensive reading guide. I do not believe in arbitrary numerical scores when it comes to novels; you will not find them here. Instead I will just tell you what the novels were about, what I loved, what I did not love, and who I think each novel is for. Said novels will be categorized into three groups. The first group will be my personal favorites. This group represents the novels I am most infatuated with, advocate for, and would recommend to any literary friends in my personal life. While these novels are excellent, they may or may not be the optimal options for an entry point into Mr. Rushdie’s fiction. The second group is what I will dub the essentials. These are also novels I love but these also are, in my opinion, novels that must be read i
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The recovery was as mysterious as the illness, and as rapid. It, too, was called (by the hospital, journalists, friends) an act of the Supreme. A national holiday was declared; fireworks were set off up and down the land. But when Gibreel regained his strength, it became clear that he had changed, and to a startling degree, because he had lost his faith.
On the day he was discharged from the hospital he went under police escort through the immense crowd that had gathered to celebrate its own deliverance as well as his, climbed into his Mercedes and told the driver to give all the pursuing vehicles the slip, which took seven hours and fifty-one minutes, and by the end of the manoeuvre he had worked out what had to be done. He got out of the limousine at the Taj hotel and without looking left or right went directly into the great dining-room with its buffet table groaning under the weight of forbidden foods, and he loaded his plate with all of it, the pork sausages from Wiltshire and the cured York hams and the rashers of bacon from godknowswhere; with the gammon steaks of his unbelief and the pig’s trotters of secularism; and then, standing there in the middle of the hall, while photographers popped up from nowhere, he began to eat as fast as possible, stuffing the dead pigs into his face so rapidly that bacon rashers hung out fo the sides of his mouth.
During his illness he had spent every minute of consciousness calling upon God, every second of every minute. Ya Allah whose servant lies bleeding do no abandon me now after watching over me so long. Ya Allah show me some sign, some small mark of your favour, that I may find in myself the strength to cure my ills. O God most beneficent most merciful, be with me in this my time of need, my most grievous need. Then it occurred to him that he was being punished, and for a time that made it possible to suffer the pain, but after a time he got angry. Enough, God, his unspoken words demanded, why must I die when I have not killed, are you vengeance or are you love? The anger with God carried him through another day, but then it faded, and in its place there came a terrible emptiness, and isolation, as he realized he was talking to thin air, that there was nobody there at all, and then he felt more foolish than ever in his life, and he began to plead into the emptiness, ya Allah, just be there, damn it, just be. But he felt nothing, nothing nothing, and then one day he found that he not longer needed there to b
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But also there is just something joyful about, for example, discovering in the ancient Norse texts that in the beginning there was a giant cow, the cow Au dumla, lying at the bottom of a bottomless chasm, the Ginnungagap the Yawning between the lands of Muspelheim and Niflheim, the lands of fire and ice, and nourishing the giant Ymir, who suckled at her udders.
Philosophy and Douglas Adams in one package! What more do you want?! :)
Hello and welcome to Week #22 of our discussion series here on /r/TrueLit, Weekly Authors. These come to you all every week to allow for coordinated discussion on popular authors here on the subreddit. You may find our previous weekly posts here. This is a free-for-all discussion thread. This week, you will be discussing the complete works of Salman Rushdie. You may talk about anything related to their work that interests you.
P.S. -- Who would you like to see discussed next?
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TLDR...
My personal favorites...
The Moor's Last Sigh (1975)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)
The essential Rushdie novels...
Midnight's Children (1981)
Shame (1983)
Shalimar the Clown (2005)
Quichotte (2019)
For the Rushdie enthusiast only...
Grimus (1975)
The Satanic Verses (1988)
Fury (2001)
The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty Eight Nights (2015)
The Golden House (2017)
Salman Rushdie is for people who...
-
enjoy genre-defying magical realism
-
enjoy indulgent, decadent prose
-
enjoy post-colonial literature
-
enjoy dense, erudite, literary fiction
-
enjoy slow reads
-
enjoy fierce intertextuality
-
enjoy left-leaning political views
This review will be spoiler-free.
In the year 1981, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children was published. That novel won the Booker Prize and would be considered by many his greatest literary achievement. The year is now 2021; Midnight's Children enjoys its fortieth anniversary and Salman Rushdie, who still lives, enjoys a body of fiction that right now numbers at twelve novels. This pandemic era, while for many a tragic and irretrievable period, had its bright spots. 2021’s brightest spot for me was falling in love with literature all over again. Salman Rushdie saved me. That is hyperbole of course. Salman Rushdie never saved me. I have never met the man. Our acquaintance is limited to me reading his books. Alas, his work, when I discovered him, was a vivid flare that helped me fend off my own breed of personal darkness in these trying times.
In the span of only a few months’ time, I read all twelve of his novels. This is both a review of each individual work and a comprehensive reading guide. I do not believe in arbitrary numerical scores when it comes to novels; you will not find them here. Instead I will just tell you what the novels were about, what I loved, what I did not love, and who I think each novel is for. Said novels will be categorized into three groups. The first group will be my personal favorites. This group represents the novels I am most infatuated with, advocate for, and would recommend to any literary friends in my personal life. While these novels are excellent, they may or may not be the optimal options for an entry point into Mr. Rushdie’s fiction. The second group is what I will dub the essentials. These are also novels I love but these also are, in my opinion, novels that must be read i
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