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ALSO BY SALMAN RUSHDIE FICTION Grimus Midnight’s Children Shame The Satanic Verses Haroun and the Sea of Stories East, West The Moor’s Last Sigh The Ground Beneath Her Feet Fury Shalimar the Clown The Enchantress of Florence Luka and the Fire of Life NONFICTION The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991 Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002 PLAYS Haroun and the Sea of Stories (with Tim Supple and David Tushingham) Midnight’s Children (with Tim Supple and Simon Reade) SCREENPLAY Midnight’s Children ANTHOLOGIES ANTHOLOGIES Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing, 1947–1997 (coeditor) Best American Short Stories 2008 (coeditor) Copyright © 2012 by Salman Rushdie All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: GROVE/ATLANTIC, INC., FABER AND FABER LIMITED, AND JUDY DAISH ASSOCIATES LIMITED: “Len Hutton” by Harold Pinter from Various Voices by Harold Pinter (Grove/Atlantic, Inc.) and Collected Poems and Prose (Faber and Faber Limited), copyright © 1998 by Harold Pinter. Electronic book rights are administered by Judy Daish Associates Limited. Reprinted by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Faber and Faber Limited, and Judy Daish Associates Limited. JOHN LE CARRÉ: Letters from John le Carré printed in The Guardian. Copyright © 1997 by John le Carré. Reprinted by permission. NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION: “The Ivy Crown” by William Carlos Williams from The Collected Poems: Volume II, 1939–1962, copyright © 1953 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. eISBN: 978-0-67964388-3 www.atrandom.com Cover design: theBookDesigners v3.1_r1 To my children Zafar and Milan and their mothers Clarissa and Elizabeth and to everyone who helped And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge. —W S , ILLIAM HAKESPEARE The Tempest Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Prologue The First Blackbird I A Faustian Contract in Reverse II “Manuscripts Don’t Burn” III Year Zero IV The Trap of Wanting to Be Loved V “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me” VI Why It’s Impossible to Photograph the Pampas VII A Truckload of Dung VIII Mr. Morning and Mr. Afternoon IX His Millenarian Illusion X At the Halcyon Hotel Acknowledgments About the Author Prologue
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