Saleem Sinai Bombay's tiny Zoroastrian community, and he grew up in Britain with a sense of cultural alienation similar to that of his character." The performance was done by 20 actors who played the 60 or 70 roles comprising the complex storyline. Saleem Sinai Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize-winning novel "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. His life is closely intertwined with the events that take place in his homeland of pre- and post-colonial India, and newly created Pakistan and Bangladesh (East Bengal). He is born at the moment in time when India and Pakistan emerge from British rule
The Golden House (novel) The Golden House (novel) The Golden House is a 2017 novel by Salman Rushdie. The novel, his thirteenth, is set in Mumbai and New York. Writing for "The Guardian", Aminatta Forna said: "Rushdie puts his finger on the nationwide identity crisis in this novel of race, reinvention and the different bubbles of US life." Reviewer Dwight Garner of "The New York Times" opined: "The Golden House is a big novel, wide but shallow, so wide it has its own meteorology. The forecast: heavy wind"; while "New Statesman" reviewer Leo Robson dismissed it as "little more than an exercise in googling,