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Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Victory City: Midnight's Children and Shame

When I started out with Midnight's Children and Shame, and to some extent even with the Satanic Verses, I was deliberately trying to find something in English that sounded un-English. American writers, of course, have made many English's. I thought I want to do that. I just want to locate it consciously before heading into Midnight's Children.

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