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Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie ..

Published in the year 1981, Midnight’s Children is a novel that focuses on the life of its protagonist, Saleem Sinai, who along with a thousand others, was born at midnight on August 15th, 1947, when India gained independence.Summary Of The BookIn Midnight’s Children, Saleem, the protagonist, h..

Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much ..

In his brilliant third novel, first published in 1983, Salman Rushdie gives us a lively and colorful mixture of history, art, language, politics, and religion. Set in a country not quite Pakistan, the story centers around the family of two men—one a celebrated warrior, the other a debauched playboy..

The concept of sharam underlies this complex and quietly compelling novel. Sharam translates inadequately into English as "shame" but it encompasses nuances such as "embarrassment, dicomfiture, decency, modesty, shyness in the world, and other dialects of emotion for which English has no counterpart..

The Moor’s Last Sigh, by Salman Rushdie, is a story set in Bombay and Cochin, tracing four generations of the narrator’s family and their decisive effects on the narrator.Summary of the BookMoraes Zogoiby, the narrator, who is also called Moor, describes the life and times of his family from the beg..

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. ..