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Violence
A lot
Significant violence including Bombay's communal riots and political killings throughout the family saga
Language
Some
Adult language in Rushdie's maximalist literary register
Sexual Content
Some
Adult content across four generations of family stories
Substance Use
Some
Drinking and some drug use across the saga's decades
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological weight of a family's four generations of excess, ambition, and destruction — and Moor's own condition of accelerated time — is the novel's sustained and inventive subject
What this book is about
Salman Rushdie's novel follows Moraes Zogoiby, born with a doubled aging condition, who narrates four generations of his family — Portuguese spice traders, Jewish merchants, Muslim artists — across India's colonial and post-independence history. The violence of Indian political history (including Bombay's communal violence) is present, and adult content spans the family's many stories. Rushdie writes with his characteristic exuberant verbal invention. For adult readers of literary fiction.
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