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  • A stellar portrait of American culture at the beginning of the new millennium. The writing is insightful and the plot engaging, but not the most amazing work from Rushdie. At this point, Solanka reminds me a little of the elderly scholar of Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memoria de mis ... Continue

    A stellar portrait of American culture at the beginning of the new millennium. The writing is insightful and the plot engaging, but not the most amazing work from Rushdie. At this point, Solanka reminds me a little of the elderly scholar of Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memoria de mis putas tristes), but less sentimental, less sympathic--shallower, despite his troubled past. Though Rushdie paints his female characters as strong, "independent," and almost as proverbial badasses, he still articulates them with a deep and noticeable taint of misogyny.

    

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