- Fiction, Middle-aged men, College teachers, British
'Kaleidoscopische roman die een actueel portret schetst van een leven aan het begin van het derde millennium, van een wereldstad in een tijd van schijnbaar eindeloze welvaart, die paradoxaal ook een tijd is van dorheid in het dagelijkse bestaan van veel mensen.'
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Contemporary, prestige, character-led and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, Random House, Rebis
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- Portuguese, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9781588360588
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“and it crossed my mind to ask you what that might be. just being friendly, sir, just being neighborly.”
Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
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