Volume 40, Number 5 · March 4, 1993
An Interview with Salman Rushdie
By John Banville
Under an unknown picture somewhere in India there is hidden a portrait of Salman Rushdie's mother. The story goes like this. An artist, hired by Rushdie's father to paint Disney animals on the walls of the child Salman's nursery, went on to do a portrait of Mrs. Rushdie. When the painting was finished, Rushdie père did not like it. The artist stored the picture in the studio of a friend of his, another artist, who, running out of canvases one day, painted a picture of his own over it. Afterward, when both had become famous artists, the friend could not remember which picture he had painted over the other's canvas, or to whom he had sold it.
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