In his first novel since The Satanic Verses, Rushdie gives
readers a masterpiece of controlled storytelling, informed by
astonishing scope and ambition, by turns compassionate, wicked,
poignant, and funny. From the paradise of Aurora's legendary salon
to his omnipotent father's sky-garden atop a towering glass
high-rise, the Moor's story evokes his family's often grotesque but
compulsively moving fortunes in a world of possibilities embodied
by India in this century.
From the Hardcover edition.
