My favourite example was Alsana’s disciplined eight-year campaign of non-committal which could have come straight from Rushdie’s Midnights children. This is an engrossing, well-paced novel filled with characters and events that still resonate two decades on. Imitation may be a form of flattery for an artist but when it is done well, it must also be a source of pride. This quote has also served as a preface to at least one of Salman Rushdie’s novels and it is clear that this is not the only area where Smith has drawn inspiration from him. Zadie Smith clearly chose Shakespeare’s words carefully when looking for a preface to a novel that is rooted firmly in the past.
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