Everything Sad Is Untrue

Daniel Nayeri

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…