Illiterarty.com Book reviews and blogs by Bridget

Twenty one years ago this year (2007), Salman Rushdie ventured into Nicaragua; a country in Central America known almost exclusively in the the first world due to the “fact” that “the communists” had “taken over” the country, and the CIA were funding the resistance movement.

For me, Middlesex is one of those rare and wondrous stories which is so richly created and so complex that I would be afraid to try and sum it up because I would invariably miss out something important. It is historical, mythological, generational, deeply personal, and extremely thought provoking. It is also fabulously well written.