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A fictional history of an imaginary empire

alman Rushdie’s last novel, 2019’s Booker Prize–short-listed blended elements of with a contemporary narrative to tell a modern parable about “junk culture” and the opioid crisis in America. His new, much different novel, released as he recovers from an attack before a lecture last August, abandons the modern age and idiom entirely, starting the clock in 14th century

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