![]() ![]() Malik creates dolls and he also creates stories-"back stories"-which give his dolls their history and character. And he is a brilliantly imaginative creator. He has a young son living with his divorced first wife. He has just moved from England to America. Malik, it seems, does share much with Rushdie. But he is unwise and, in any case, the wrath of those Ancient Greek goddesses has already fallen on him. Perhaps, like Malik Solanka, who is the main character in Fury, Rushdie is under attack by the Eumenides, "The Kindly Ones." It is unwise to mention them by name or they may vent their fury on us, so Solanka/Rushdie tells us. ![]() He is as imaginative, fluent, topical and clever as ever, and the Sea of Stories has not yet run dry but it is polluted by this sick old Earth, and this story has lost the freshness and balance which made Midnight's Children and Haroun and The Sea of Stories such a delight. Truly, Salman Rushdie is the Shah of Blah and the King of Lists. ![]()
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