Seems intended as a kind of coda to his career. The stories are death-haunted ... These stories are entertaining but not particularly strong ... ords have not yet failed Salman Rushdie, even if, in this self-consciously late book, the spectacular originality of his novelistic peak sounds more as an echo than as an urgently present voice.
Rushdie returns in full transfixing force ... Rushdie’s spectacularly imaginative eleventh-hour cautionary tales are enthralling, sagacious, and resounding.
