«The book has leaped the generations, which is wonderful for me. I feared it might just be a topical book about the birth of India and that it wouldn't endure. The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.»
Kjelde:Guardian (avis)
'Everybody needs to get thicker skins' (artikkel) Opphavleg mål:Engelsk År:2008 Kontekst: Frå eit intervju av Rushdie i samband med at den tidlege, anerkjende boka hans, Midnight's Children, blei kåra til Best of Booker.
Teke frå Midnight's Children, Everyman's Library (1995), s. 268.
Opphavleg tekst:
«Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality»
«Minne er sanning, for det har sin heilt eigne type. Det vel ut, vel vekk, endrer, overdriv, underdriv, forgyller, og fornedrer også, men til slutt skaper det sin eigen røyndom.»
«Minne er sanning, for det har sin heilt eigne type. Det vel ut, vel vekk, endrer, overdriv, underdriv, forgyller, og fornedrer også, men til slutt skaper det sin eigen røyndom.»
Teke frå Sajni Mukherji: «Memories of a Mohajir». Melding av ' Shame i Social Scientist, Vol. 12, No. 9, (Sep., 1984), pp. 70-75.
Opphavleg tekst:
«I, too, know something of this immigrant business. I am an emigrant from one country (India) and a newcomer in two (England, where I live, and Pakistan, to which my family moved against my will). And I have a theory that the resentments we Mohajirs engender have something to do with our conquest of gravity. We have performed the act of which all men anciently dream, the thing for which they envy the birds, that is to say, we have flown.»
