Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time.

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

"To be born again " sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie

There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name.