Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0-099-28295-X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0099282952 |
No of pages | 634 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Vintage Books |
Published Date | 03 Feb 2000 |
One of the most celebrated writers of our time, SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of ten previous novels— Grimes, Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers in 1993, and, in 2008, the Best of the Booker),
Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, and The Enchantress of Florence.
He has also published four works of non-fiction, a collection of short stories, and edited two fiction anthologies.
In June 2007, Rushdie was appointed a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. He holds the rank Commandeer in the Ordre des Arts et des Letters of France and began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University in 2007.
In May 2008, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and also in 2008, the London Times ranked Rushdie thirteenth on their list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
For two years he served as president of The PEN American Center, the world's oldest human rights organization, and is the chair of PEN's World Voices Festival of International Literature, an annual literary festival he began in New York in 2001. Rushdie is currently working on the film version of Midnight's Children.
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At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormes Came, the lover who finds, loses, seeks and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormes’s childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, the photographer Rai.
Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. This is Salman Rushdie's boldest imaginative act, a vison of our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be, an account of the intimate, flawed encounter between the East and the West, a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus.