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This reads as a defense of disagreement and plurality. A book can be taken to mean one possible ordering of reality, and if it does not speak to you, the answer is not to treat it as the whole truth but to answer back with your own view. It lands clearly in debates about art, ideology, or any shelf where one perspective tries to dominate the rest.
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About Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British and American novelist
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. He is known for fiction that blends magical realism with historical elements, and for writing about movement, rupture, and exchange between Eastern and Western worlds. His novels are often set on the Indian subcontinent and frequently center Indian characters or family life. Midnight's Children, his second novel, won the Booker Prize in 1981, and later it was selected twice as the best of all Booker winners, for the prize's 25th and 40th anniversaries.
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Books by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
1995
The Satanic Verses
1989
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
1991
The Moor's Last Sigh
1996
Fury
2002