The Ministry of False Alarms

Salman Rushdie’s novels include Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, and Shalimar the Clown. He has won the Booker Prize, the “Booker of Bookers,” the Whitbread Prize, the Writer’s Guild Award, the Aristeion Prize, and major literary awards...