Books by author: Salman Rushdie

This is Rushdie's most recent collection of short stories. It is my first introduction to his work, so I hope it's a good place to start. The stories in the "East" section are pure allegory, to my reading. The stories in the other sections were more satisfying, perhaps because I understood them better. I'm looking forward to reading Midnight's Children.

I found The Satanic Verses to be fairly difficult to understand, except on a very high level. I enjoyed the novel, particularly for Rushdie's clever turns of phrase (one example being the extended introduction of a woman mountain climber named Cone, who is ultimately referred to in a later punchline as "Ice Queen Cone", which I thought was awfully cute). His wordplay reminds me somewhat of Humbert's monologue in Nabokov's Lolita.