"A glittering novelist -- one with startling imagination and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling." -- V.S. Pritchett, The New Yorker "A staggering achievement, brilliantly enjoyable." -- Nadine Gordimer "A masterpiece." -- Sunday Times "Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire's Candide, Sterne's Tristam Shandy.... Salman Rushdie, it seems to me, is very much a latter day member of their company." -- New York Times Book Review
