Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

Dazzling . . . Modern thriller, Ramayan epic, courtroom drama, slapstick comedy, wartime adventure, political satire, village legend-they're all blended here magnificently.
-The Washington Post Book World

This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America's counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the modern world; his Kashmiri Muslim driver and subsequent killer, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown; Max's illegitimate daughter India; and a woman who links them, whose revelation finally explains them all. It is an epic narrative that moves from California to Kashmir, France, and England, and back to California again. Along the way there are tales of princesses lured from their homes by demons, legends of kings forced to defend their kingdoms against evil. And there is always love, gained and lost, uncommonly beautiful and mortally dangerous.

A commanding story . . . a] harrowing climax . . . Revenge is an ancient and powerful engine of narrative.
-The New York Times Book Review

Absorbing . . . Everywhere Rushdie] takes us there is both love and war, in strange and terrifying combinations, painted in swaying, swirling, world-eating prose that annihilates the borders between East and West, love and hate, private lives and the history they make.
-Time

A vast, richly peopled, beautiful and deeply rageful book that serves as a profound and disturbing artifact of our times.
-San Francisco Chronicle

Marvelous . . . brilliant . . . a story worthy of Rushdie's] genius.
-Detroit Free Press

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
- The Washington Post Book World -Los Angeles Times Book Review -St. Louis Post-Dispatch -Rocky Mountain News

ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR
-Time -Chicago Tribune -The Christian Science Monitor

Knighted by Queen Elizabeth, named to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Sir Salman Rushdie is one of the foremost novelists of our time. Winner of the Booker Prize, the Best of the Bookers, and the Booker of Bookers, Rushdie ranks with the best writers of a generation.
The author of sixteen previous books, Rushdie is best known for his second novel, Midnight's Children, which launched him into fame, and The Satanic Verses, which touched off a storm of protest across the Muslim world and resulted in a fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran. These two novels together helped shape two themes that have come together to give form to his career. On one hand, he nearly single-handedly defined the shape that Indian novels written in English would take for decades. And on the other he became a symbol of enlightenment and free speech, defiant against the forces of intolerance and fundamentalist religion.
His books often tread a path that navigates these directions in his career. Fascinated both by the form of magic realism and the subject matter of post-colonialism, and by the experiences of various diasporas, Rushdie's works have an uncanny ability to tease the story out of people's sacred truths.
An international celebrity, Rushdie is often in the public eye, whether the focus is on his personal life or his political views. He is also Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Emory University, and Midnight's Children has been adapted for a film version, to be shot by Canadian director Deepa Mehta.

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ISBN 13	9780679463351
ISBN 10	0679463356
Title	Shalimar the Clown
Author	Salman Rushdie
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House (NY)
Year published	2005-09-06
Number of pages	398
Prizes	Short-listed for Costa Book Awards (Novel) 2005, Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.