And The Award For Most Original Observation In A Shalimar Review Goes To...

...Matt Thorne, who begins his review for The Independent thus:

"It's impossible to read a line like 'an open city was a naked whore' without picturing Salman Rushdie as Woody Allen's Isaac Davis in Manhattan, pushing his spectacles back up the bridge of his nose, wiping the sweat from his fevered brow and peering down at the typewriter, feeling sheer delight at the bombast of his own prose."