"One morning, for some forgotten reason, Sonny and I were the only boys at the stop. Maybe there was a bug going round or something. Monkey waited until Mary Pereira had left us alone, in the care of the beefy swimmers; and then suddenly the truth of what she was planning flashed into my head as, for"
"In the town of Baud, on the Mahanadi river in Orissa, there was a pair of twin sisters who were already a legend in the region, because despite their impressive plainness they both possessed the ability of making every man who saw them fall hopelessly and often suicidally in love with them, so that "
"NO COLOURS EXCEPT green and black the walls are green they sky is black (there is no roof) the stars are green the Widow's hair has a centre-parting it is green on the left and on the right black. High as the sky the chair is green the seat is black the Widow's arm is long as death its skin is green"
Audible book: 听不懂的东西很多,一是不了解印度历史,二是Rushdie夸张的语言风格听得人晕头转向。简言之,it’s an allegory of the twentieth-century Indian history presented in magical realism. “寓言性”有点太强了,各个细节都往历史事件上贴,用力过度。