The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

　　Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with someof the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism,religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensiveintroduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematicreadings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywoodfilms are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family andgender in the work, the influence of English writing andreflections on the fatwa. Part II discusses Rushdie's importancefor postcolonial writing and provides detailed interpretations ofhis fiction. In one volume, this book provides a stimulatingintroduction to the author and his work in a range of expert essaysand readings. With its detailed chronology of Rushdie's life and acomprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will beinvaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the generalreader interested in his work.