Saleem Sinai nations. Rushdie's character has been much discussed in literary circles. "Midnight's Children" is considered by many to be the author's masterwork and it has inspired a generation of writers on the subcontinent. Many authors have their work compared to it and their characters compared to Saleem Sinai. and focus on aspects of his complex character. The character has been discussed as being in many ways an autobiographical representation of Rushdie himself. Saleem Sinai is an Anglo-Indian born at the moment of India's independence and is a self-conscious narrator who questions the readers' assumptions about what constitutes a life story or
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,