text: The protagonist of this author’s first major novel spies on his mother by hiding in her washing-chest, but is discovered when a pajama cord goes up his gigantic nose.
full_question: The protagonist of this author’s first major novel spies on his mother by hiding in her washing-chest, but is discovered when a pajama cord goes up his gigantic nose. That character, has special powers due to the hour of his birth and is named Saleem Sinai. This man wrote the children’s book Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and a controversial work by this author opens with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha in a hijacked plane. Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of, for the points, what Indian author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses?
first_sentence: The protagonist of this author’s first major novel spies on his mother by hiding in her washing-chest, but is discovered when a pajama cord goes up his gigantic nose.