"In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist–one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling."–The New Yorker
"A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie's prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself."–Newsweek
"Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance."–The Washington Post Book World
"Pure story–an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy."–Chicago Sun-Times
"This brash, knowing, massive, aggressive novel is to modern India what Günter Grass's The Tin Drum is to modern Germany."–The New York Times Book Review
"Dazzling . . . In combining past with present, nostalgic realism with mythic overtones, specific detail with complex and binding narrative devices, Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction."–The Philadelphia Inquirer