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Everything Sad Is Untrue

Daniel Nayeri

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Brett Alan Dewing
Oct 09, 2025
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One of my favorite living novelists is Salman Rushdie. His books boil over with the overcrowded feeling of India. Characters, generations, subplots, images—they are all constantly sprouting in a chaos that turns out to be carefully controlled. Rushdie has absolute control over his creations, and his overriding metaphor is always The 1,001 Nights. His bo…

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