In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: The protagonist of this work extols the virtue of dung to placate his mistress. At the beginning of this work, a doctor falls in love with his patient after medically examining her part by part through a hole in a sheet. The protagonist's life changes forever when he hides in his mother's laundry basket and spies her masturbating, causing a pajama cord to become lodged in his nose. Characters in this work include the protagonist's sister, the Brass Monkey, and Padma, to whom the entire story is told. This work features the rivalry between Shiva and the protagonist, who was born on August 15, 1947. FTP, name this work about Saleem Sinai by Salman Rushdie.
A:
Literature