Subgenre: hatred, ambivalence, brutality & cruelty, imagination, disillusionment, bearing witness, fanaticism - Subgenre: national identity, civil war, oppression, political corruption, nationalism, patriotism, colonialism, British - Subgenre: Indians (Asian) - Subgenre: Hinduism, Islam - Subgenre: authority & dissent, personal & political, sacred & profane, reality & illusion, courage & cowardice, past & present, history & myth, good & evil, active & passive, language & understanding, pride & shame, peace & war, fate & randomness, secular & religious, power struggles, twists of fate, dominance & submission, wealth & poverty, virtue & vice, innocence & experience, cultures in conflict, reform & revolution, tolerance & intolerance, loyalty & betrayal, East & West, reason & imagination, individual & society - Subgenre: soldiers, antiheroes, bourgeoisie - Subgenre: violence, caste system, prejudice, mob mentality, poverty - Subgenre: generational conflict - Subgenre: comic fantasy - Subgenre: epic novels, postmodernism, allegories, cinematic techniques, magic realism, social criticism, family sagas & chronicles, unreliable narrators, historical fiction - Subgenre: history & its burdens - Subgenre: jungles, mountains, cities - Format: Paperback - Author: Salman Rushdie