The internationally acclaimed author of The Satanic Verses creates a stunning literary masterpiece, brilliantly intermingling the themes of love, loss, music, myth, realism, history, and pop culture, while telling a captivating story of epic proportions...

"This is Rushdie at his absolute, almost insolently global best-his adroit mastery of language serves brilliantly imagined characters and a mesmerizing narrative. Completely seductive."-Toni Morrison

"Rushdie's new novel is a wonderful storytelling beast that feeds on pop culture, misfit history, and the persistence of myth. Rushdie's epic range has never been more impressive. Here is a great novelist operating as a master of metamorphosis-transforming life, art and language in the subterranean maze of his imagination."-Don DeLillo