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RUSHDIE  \nGrimusMidnight's ChildrenShameThe Jaguar SmileThe Satanic VersesHaroun and the Sea of Stories  \nIMAGINARYHOMELANDS  \nESSAYS AND CRITICISM 1981-1991  \nGRANTA BOOKS  \nLONDONin association withPENGUIN BooKs  \nGRANTA BOOKS  \n2/3 Hanover Yard,Noel Road,Islington,London N18BE  \nPublished in association with the Penguin GroupPenguin Books Ltd,27 Wrights Lane,London W85TZ,England  \nViking Penguin,a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.,375 Hudson Street,New York 10014,USA  \nPenguin Books Australia Ltd,Ringwood,Victoria,AustraliaPenguin Books Canada Ltd,2801 John Street,Markham,Ontario,Canada L3R 1B4  \nPenguin Books(NZ)Ltd,182-190 Wairau Road,Auckland 10,New Zealand  \n表的Penguin Books Ltd,Registered Offices:Harmondsworth,Middlesex,England  \nFirst published 1991  \n13579108642  \nCopyright ◎ Salman Rushdie,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991  \nAccording to the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988,the proprietor hereby asserts his moral right to be identified asthe author of this work  \nAll rights reserved.Without limiting the rights undercopyright reserved above,no part of this publication may bereproduced,stored in or introduced into a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means(electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise),without the prior written permission of both the copyrightowner and the above publisher of this book  \nPrinted in England  \nA CIP catalogue record for this book is available fromthe British Library  \nISBN 0-14-014224-X  \n163351  \nTo my motherNegin Rushdiewith my love  \nCONTENTS  \nINTRODUCTION 1  \n工  \nIMAGINARY HoMELANDS 9'ERRATA':OR,UNRELIABLE NARRATIONIN MIDNIGHT's CHILDREN 22THE RIDDLE OF MIDNIGHT:INDIA,AUGUST 198726  \n2  \nCENSORSHIP 37王  \nTHE AssASSINATION OF INDIRA GANDHI 41DYNASTY 47  \n牌ZIA UL-HAQ.17 AUGUST 198853DAUGHTER OF THE EAST 56  \n3  \n'CoMMONWEALTH LITERATURE′DOES NoT ExIST 61ANITA DESAI 71KIPLING 74HoBSON-JoBSON 81  \n4  \n十OUTSIDE THE WHALE 87十ATTENBOROUGH's GANDHI 102SATYAJIT RAY 107HANDSWORTH SoNGs 115+THE LoCATION OF BRAZIL 118  \n5  \nTHE NEW EMPIRE WITHIN BRITAIN 129AN UNIMPORTANT FIRE 139  \nHOME FRONT 143V.S.NAIPAUL 148THE PAINTER AND THE PEST 152  \n6  \nA GENERAL ELECTION 159CHARTER 88163ON PALESTINIAN IDENTITY:A CoNVERSATION WITH EDWARD SAID 166  \n7  \nNADINE GORDIMER 187RIAN MALAN 196NURUDDIN FARAH 201KAPUŚCIŃSKI's ANGOLA 203  \n8  \nJOHN BERGER 209GRAHAM GREENE 213JOHN LE CARRÉ 219ON ADVENTURE 222  \nAT THE ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 226TRAVELLING WITH CHATWIN 232  \nCHATWIN's TRAVELS 237jULIAN BARNES 241KAZUo ISHIGURO 244  \n9  \nMICHEL ToURNIER 249ITALO CALVINO 254STEPHEN HAWKING 262ANDREI SAKHAROV 265UMBERTO Eco 269GUNTER GRASS 273HEINRICH BÖLL 282SIEGFRIED LENZ 285PETER SCHNEIDER 288  \nCHRISTOPH RANSMAYR 291MAURICE SENDAK AND WILHELM GRIMM 294  \n10  \nGABRIEL GARCÍA MARQUEZ 299MARIO VARGAS LLOSA 308  \n11  \nTHE LANGUAGE OF THE PACK 321DEBRETT GOES TO HOLLYwOOD 326  \nE.L.DoCTOROw 330  \nMICHAEL HERR:AN INTERVIEW 333  \nRICHARD FORD 337  \nRAYMOND CARVER 340  \nISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER 343PHILIP RoTH 346SAUL BELLOw 349THOMAS PYNCHON 352KURT VONNEGUT 358GRACE PALEY 362  \nTRAVELS WITH A GOLDEN Ass 364THE DIVINE SUPERMARKET 368  \n12  \nNAIPAUL AMONG THE BELIEVERS 373'IN GoD WE TRUST’376IN GooD FAITH 393Is NoTHING SACRED?415WHY I HAVE EMBRACED ISLAM 430  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nTThe essay from which this collection takes its title wasmy contribution to a seminar about Indian writing inEnglish held in London during the Festival of India in1982.In those days Indira Gandhi was back as India's premierIn Pakistan,the Zia regime was consolidating its power in theaftermath of the execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.Britain was inthe early throes of the Thatcher revolution,and in the UnitedStates,Ronald Reagan was still an unregenerate Cold Warrior.The structures of the world retained their uninspiringlyfamiliar form.d  \nThe upheavals of 1989 and 1990 changed all that.Now thatwe're contemplating a 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