Identity & Belonging

Explorations of self, belonging, and what it means to find your place.

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The Satanic Verses

Two Indian actors survive a plane explosion over the English Channel and undergo fantastical transformations in London. The novel's dream sequences involving a prophet-like figure led to Ayatollah Khomeini's 1989 fatwa against Rushdie.

Midnight's Children

Saleem Sinai, born at the stroke of Indian independence in 1947, discovers he is telepathically linked to the 1,000 other children born in that hour. Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel — later awarded the "Booker of Bookers" — is a magical-realist history of postcolonial India.

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