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In his first essay, Rushdie asserts that the best way of uncovering the realities of life is through the unreality of fiction. Later, he says that he only found ‘his’ voice as a writer when he dropped his narratorial voice and adopted the first-person voice of the protagonist of midnight’s children. I’ll take this at face value - it seems he’s better suited to fiction than to non