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“It’s a really full-on, absolutely uncompromising maximalist novel. It’s very entertaining, clever and politically acute…If you love storytelling and you love popular culture, this is just a dream book because it rips along. At the same time, it is an astonishingly careful and lucid engagement with Don Quixote, the greatest novel of the European tradition. There’s a pleasure just in the game as they play with each other. It’s both wildly unfamiliar and really pleasingly recognizably Rushdie at the top of his game. So yes, it’s a good, good book, but…the bar is set high for him. I don’t want to have something that wasn’t as good as Midnight’s Children on the list. I wanted something wonderful, and he’s delivered it.” Read more...
