However, tempting as it may be to focus on the circumstances of a book, rather than the text alone, ultimately it is the prose that must speak for itself.
Rushdie watchers will spend column inches playing "spot the unmistakable biographical references": the main character Malik Solanka is a 55-year-old Indian professor he later comes to live in England and flees to New York, leaving his wife and young son in America, he falls for the beautiful Neela, clearly modelled on Rushdie's partner.
Holland's literary community was livid that a novel written by a non-Dutch writer was funded by their government. Even before it was published, Salman Rushdie's novel Fury was the subject of controversy.
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