Reminiscent of Faulkner’s Absalom Absalom in its meandering narrative time structure, and playing with mythopoetic structures and dream-reality juxtapositions like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Maxine Hong Kingston, Rushdie delivers a social and historical critic of India. The story begins and ends in mythic fashion, blending elements of judeo-christian-mulsim, hindu and many other spiritual practices into the life narrative of Salim Aziz, the first child born at the … more