Shame - by Salman Rushdie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this brilliant novel, Rushdie masterfully combines history, art, language, politics, and religion. Set in a country "not quite Pakistan," the story centers around the families of two men--one a celebrated warrior, the other, a debauched playboy engaged in a protracted duel.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, <i>The Satanic Verses</i>, <i>Shame</i> is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is "not quite Pakistan." In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men-one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure-Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation-"shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence." <i>Shame</i> is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ETRANGER</b> <p/>"Rushdie's novels pour by in a sparkling, voracious onrush...each paragraph luxurious and delicious."<i> --The New Yorker</i> <p/>"There can seldom have been so robust and baroque an incarnation of the political novel as <i>Shame</i>. It can be read as a fable, polemic, or excoriation; as history or as fiction.... This is the novel as myth and as satire."<i> --Sunday Telegraph </i> <p/>"<i>Shame </i>is and is not about Pakistan, that invented, imaginary country, 'a failure of the dreaming mind.'... Rushdie shows us with what fantasy our sort of history must now be written--if, that is, we are to penetrate it, and perhaps even save it." --<i>The Guardian <br></i><br>"Swift in <i>Gulliver's Travels</i>, Voltaire in <i>Candide</i>, Sterne in <i>Tristram Shandy...</i>Rushdie, it seems to me, is very much a latter-day member of their company."<i> --The New York Times Book Review<br></i><br>"A pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives."<i> --The Times</i> (UK)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of fourteen novels--including <i>Luka and the Fire of Life</i>; <i>Grimus</i>; <i>Midnight's Children</i> (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); <i>Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories</i>; <i>The Moor's Last Sigh</i>; <i>The Ground Beneath Her Feet</i>; <i>Fury</i>; <i>Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence</i>; <i>Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights</i>; <i>The Golden House</i>; and <i>Quichotte</i>--and one collection of short stories: <i>East, West</i>. He has also published four works of non-fiction--<i>Joseph Anton</i>, <i>The Jaguar Smile</i>, <i>Imaginary Homelands</i>, and <i>Step Across This Line</i>--and coedited two anthologies, <i>Mirrorwork </i>and <i>Best American Short Stories 2008</i>. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.</p>
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