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...appears to have borrowed passages from Salman Rushdie??s “Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” and Meg Cabot’s “The Princess Diaries.” In each of the cases, the passages in question contain similar rhymes and descriptions...
...pages that comprise Salman Rushdie??s latest novel, “Shalimar the Clown,” he carries us spellbound from Hinduism to Nazism, Krishna to Allah, and Kashmir to California. Along the way, he examines and shatters traditional notions of love, vengeance, nationalism, seduction, and betrayal. By the end of this journey, Rushdie forces readers to realize that when all masks and motives are stripped away, there are no winners and losers, only interconnected individuals with a present to be lived and a past to be learned and retold. Throughout, Rushdie uses a subtle, potent...
...warbling “Moonshadow” to support the fatwa again Salman Rushdie, whose sins are really limited to an excessive fondness for topical celebrity gossip. To be sure, Stevens was quick to assure the press that he was not encouraging the man on the street to take Rushdie??s death into his own hands; rather, he hoped Rushdie could be duly dispatched by the suitable authorities...
...Rushdie??s own notion of home has been challenged by his vocation as an artist and truth-seeker. For much of the 90s, Rushdie was refused entrance into his native India; the country banned his novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, followed by Sri Lanka and Pakistan, for its alleged insult against Muslims. A year later, Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa for Rushdie??s head. And though he was later issued a visa to return to India nearly a decade after his exile, Rushdie had already established a reputation as a national...
...return to the normalcy of home in such a perverse and threatening world? Rushdie??s ironic response: Dorothy’s (of The Wizard of Oz fame) ruby slippers. “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers” is a nightmarishly portentous satire that reflects Rushdie??s vision of the current state of the West. In The Grand Saleroom of the Auctioneers, the narrator finds himself amid the religious fundamentalists, orphans, untouchables and even imaginary beings like E.T., who have come to bid for the slippers as an “affirmation...