Ulysses S. Grant

digressive ragbag of a novel stuffed with all manner of surprising entertainments. The style of the work, thick with literary and historical allusions and puns expressed in popular street language, owes a great debt to James Joyce, especially to his Ulysses (1922). But whereas Joyce had drawn mainly on Western European sources for his allusions, Rushdie loves to mix Indian and Western allusions in his works in a cross-pollination of images that reflects his identity as a writer belonging to both worlds