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...latest foreign observer to peer into the void is Salman Rushdie, author of two fantastical novels, Midnight's Children and Shame, that tell the recent history of India and Pakistan. As an Indian who grew up with his independent motherland in its infancy, and as a fabulist whose bravura acts of invention bring to mind the "magic realism" of Latin American fiction, Rushdie felt himself obscurely allied with the revolutionary government in Nicaragua. Last summer he accepted the invitation of the Sandinista leadership to inspect the seven-year-old revolution. For three weeks he attended rallies, journeyed to the Honduran...
...instead of the usual five. For seven days next month, however, one itinerant supplicant may find it difficult to perform the ritual of touching his forehead to the floor during prayers. As a "payload specialist" on the next voyage of the space shuttle Discovery, Saudi Prince % Sultan ibn Salman ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, a nephew of King Fahd's, will help supervise the launch of Arabsat 1B, a communications satellite funded by 22 Arab countries. Says he: "My flight has great significance. More young people in Saudi Arabia will look at the mission and open their eyes to technology...
FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙The Collected Stories of Colette, edited by Robert Phelps Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee ∙Pitch Dark, Renata Adler The Salt Line, Elizabeth Spencer Shame, Salman Rushdie...
FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth -The Collected Stories of Colette, edited by Robert Phelps Life and Times of Michael K. J.M. Coetzee -Pitch Dark, Renata Adler Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury - Shame, Salman Rushdie...
FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee ∙The Penitent, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙Pitch Dark, Renata Adler ∙Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury ∙5hame, Salman Rushdie NONFICTION: The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin ∙The Oxford Book of Dreams, edited by Stephen Brook Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose ∙The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton ∙Siegfried Sassoon's Long Journey, edited by Paul Fussell The Spiritualists, Ruth Brandon