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Why should you attempt to read this book? Find out in this Ted-Ed video.
Read this interview with Salman Rushdie to learn more about him.
Life's Work: An Interview with Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is best known for his fifth book, The Satanic Verses, which prompted a fatwa against him in 1989. But over the past 40 years he has published 16 others, including Midnight's Children-the winner of three Booker awards-and his latest novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights.
This book has been classified in the genre of Magical Realism. Listen to the author discuss this genre in the following video.