| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 009949809X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-099-49809--4 |
| No of pages | 649 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | vintage |
| Published Date | 05 Oct 2006 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 009949809X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-099-49809--4 |
| No of pages | 649 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | vintage |
| Published Date | 05 Oct 2006 |
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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Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Opus, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown.
The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal.
This is the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter - and of a fourth character, the woman who links them, whose story explains them all. The story of a deep love gone fatally wrong, destroyed by a shallow affair, it is an epic narrative that moves from California to France, England, and above all, Kashmir.
At its heart is the tale of that earthly paradise of peach orchards and honey bees, of mountains and lakes, of green-eyed women and murderous men: a ruined paradise, not so much lost as smashed. Lives are uprooted, names keep changing - nothing is permanent, yet everything is connected. Spanning the globe and darting through history, Salman Rushdie's majestic narrative captures the heart of the reader and the spirit of a troubled age.