If You've Never Read Anything By Salman Rushdie, Here's The Book You Should Start With

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“Rushdie’s fanciful language is as concentrated and overwhelming as a paisley pattern.”

In 1989, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini banned the controversial novel in Iran.

God Willing, whoever is killed on this path is a martyr."

However, arguably, the highly controversial novel isn’t his best book.

It won the1981 Booker Prize.

The reviewer praised the magical realist tale as “tremendous fun.”