Fusion in pocket format of two previous collections, Imaginary homelands And Cross the line…, Trials 1981-2002 brings together around a hundred essays and articles that the American-British writer of Indian origin published in the press over two decades. The author of Midnight’s Children and Satanic verses, who all his life belonged to a minority group, approaches as a man of letters, with the intelligence and subtle humor that we know from him, works, authors or issues – exile, literature, Hindu nationalism, the defense of secularism. In addition to having sown everywhere and without any ambiguity a praise of the novel and freedom of expression. Let’s open it a little at random: “Beware of the writer who sets himself up as the voice of a nation. Be it the nations of race, gender, sexual preference, elective affinity. This is the new proxyism. Beware of prosecutors,” he wrote in 1997. Visionary? A fantastic return on investment.
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