![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gandhi threatened to sue for libel over a passage that implied she bore responsibility for her husband's death. After the book's publication in 1981, Mrs. Rushdie to the forefront of a new generation of British writers, stands as a dark parable of Indian history since independence: the decline of the book's hero - from a brilliant childhood into adult cynicism and despair - became a metaphor for the country's own fate, its high hopes of democracy crumbling in the the tumultuous period of emergency rule declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975. ''Midnight's Children,'' which won England's prestigious Booker Prize and brought Mr. Rushdie's novels and the least overtly political. ![]() Born in Bombay to a Muslim family (which later moved to Karachi, Pakistan), Salman Rushdie has spent the last two decades living in England, and in all his fiction, he has used his multi-cultural perspective - what he calls his ''stereoscopic vision'' - to look at the subcontinent both from within and without.Īlthough the novelist has written of the responsibility of writers to deal with public, as opposed to private, issues, his new book ''The Satanic Verses'' (Viking Penguin), which has prompted Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to call on Muslims to kill him, remains the most autobiographical of Mr. ![]()
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