Salman Rushdie · Imaginary Homelands · LRB 7 October 1982

‘The past is a foreign country,’ goes the famous opening sentence of L.P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between, ‘they...

Vol. 4 No. 18 · 7 October 1982 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 4297 words An old photograph in a cheap frame hangs on a wall of the room where I work. It's a picture, dating from 1946, of a house into which, at the time of its taking, I had not yet been born. The house is rather peculiar - a three-storied gabled affair with tiled roofs and round towers in two corners, each wearing a pointy tile hat. 'The past is a foreign country,' goes the famous opening sentence of L.P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between , 'they do things differently there.

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