Salman Rushdie: Grimus

(c) 1975; Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1979; ISBN: 0879510935

Rushdie’s first book, he describes it in the introduction to Imaginary Homelands in these words:

Before Midnight’s Children, I had had one novel rejected, abandoned two others, and published one, Grimus, which, to put it mildly, bombed.