![]() ![]() Rushdie also includes unmailed letters to actual people (Tony Blair) and to ideas (the millennium). He returns continually to an image from Hitchcock’s The Birds: the black birds gradually filling up a jungle gym on a school playground (these represent the threats to personal freedom presented by fundamentalists). Perhaps he viewed himself during those 13 years (the duration of his protection by British security forces) more as a character than a free agent. The author uses third person throughout, a decision that allows him a novelist’s distance but denies some of the intimacy of the first person. ![]() Rushdie ( Luka and the Fire of Life, 2008, etc.) chose for his cover name (and for the title) the first names of Conrad and Chekhov-appropriate, for the author seems caught in a tangled novel filled with ominous (and some cowardly) characters driven by an inscrutable fate toward a probable sanguinary climax. The frightening, illuminating and disturbing memoir by the author of The Satanic Verses, the book that provoked a death sentence from the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. ![]()
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