![]() ![]() ![]() There were quite a few little things like that sprinkled throughout the story that felt a bit alienating to me or made me roll my eyes. ![]() Accidentally seeing your parents naked is almost a rite of passage for kids, but this way of describing it and fixating on it definitely felt like something only a man would write. He describes her backside as a "black mango," which is off-putting enough on it's own, but he continually brings up the black mango throughout the rest of the story. ![]() His most recent novel, Victory City completed a month before the attack was published in February. For example, at one point in his childhood, Saleem accidentally sees his mother naked. 8 hours ago &0183 &32 Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his novel Midnight’s Children, and in 2008 was voted the best-ever winner of the prestigious fiction prize. Books Midnights Children The story begins with Salman Rushdies Shandy-esque narrator, Saleem Sinai, revealing the accident of his birth Interview: Everybody needs to get thicker skins. There were several female characters present, but they definitely were of secondary importance the the male characters, and there were a few weird sexual situations throughout that I didn't love. I'm not trying to say that women can't enjoy this book, because of course they can, it just felt to me like a man's story. I also couldn't get away from the nagging feeling that this was a book written by a man for other men to find meaningful. ![]()
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