OH MY GOD I LOVE SALMAN RUSHDIE! Worship him, really. His writing style is just so beautiful and profound I can't ever get over it. I particularly liked this work of art. It's less fantastical than many of his other works but his unique writing style remains as excellent as ever. The story is written in the epic form in that it starts with the event around which the story revolves, goes way back, works its way up to the event, and then goes past the event to the end. I also thought that the end was perfection although many people may disagree with that.
Not only is Rushdie a master of words, he is also a master story-teller and I think that is particularly apparent in this book. He weaves together the lives of people who are extremely different from each other and yet he draws parallels between them which the reader would never expect. For instance, the battle between India and Pakistan and the results which Kashmir suffers for it is likened to WWII Europe. And it works. It works beautifully and the ways in which Rushdie weaves together all of these different stories and lives is simply perfection. I highly, highly recommend this book.
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