Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Despite the political overtones, it soon emerges that this is a murder with a much darker heart to it. The killing has its roots halfway across the globe, back in Kashmir, a ruined paradise not so much lost as shattered.
A brilliant symphony.. Exceptional... One of Rushdie's best novels yet * Independent *
Extraordinary... Worth engaging with at every level; a thrilling story told in thrilling language * The Times *
Shalimar the Clown is Rushdie's most engaging book since Midnight's Children. It is a lament. It is a revenge story. it is a love story. And it is a warning * Observer *
Deeply disturbing and immensely moving... An exquisite, broken thing of pain and beauty * Independent *
Excellent... A characteristically daring walk along the tightrope of fiction * Sunday Telegraph *
Extraordinary... Worth engaging with at every level; a thrilling story told in thrilling language * The Times *
Shalimar the Clown is Rushdie's most engaging book since Midnight's Children. It is a lament. It is a revenge story. it is a love story. And it is a warning * Observer *
Deeply disturbing and immensely moving... An exquisite, broken thing of pain and beauty * Independent *
Excellent... A characteristically daring walk along the tightrope of fiction * Sunday Telegraph *
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099421887 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099421887 |
| Title | Shalimar the Clown |
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2006-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007 |
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