Rushdie's narrative technique has connected his books to magic realism , which includes such English-language authors as Peter Carey, Angela Carter , E.L. Doctorow, John Fowles , Mark Helprin or Emma Tennant.
Insults are mysteries.
Rushdie was born in Bombay, India, to an middle-class Moslem family. His paternal grandfather was an Urdu poet, and his father a Cambridge-educated businessman. At the age of fourteen Rushdie was sent to Rugby School to England. In 1964 Rushdie's parents moved to Karachi, Pakistan, joining reluctantly the Muslim exodus - during these years there was a war between India and Pakistan, and the choosing of sides and divided loyalties burdened Rushdie heavily. Rushdie continued his studies at King's College, Cambridge, where he read history.