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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780679783480
ISBN: 0679783482
Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: October 10, 2006
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Sales Rank: 32426
Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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“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
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This is a beautiful tale about a family from Kashmir. The father is an ambassador with a modern-minded daughter in the U.S. Their earlier life in Kashmir follows them to the U.S. As usual for Rushdie, this novel is filled with wonderful prose along with touches of magical realism.
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Max Ophuls is killed on his daughter's doorstep right after her birthday. His daughter, named India for where she was born, seems to have premonitions of this murder and is worried for her father. The story that then unfolds is an historical telling of intertwined lives that lead up to the murder.
When a "who done it" begins with the end of the story, the "who" is usually a mystery. When it is told, it usually has some interesting nuggets that emerge slowly. Not so in Shalimar the ... Read More
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StC is a surpassing novel, transcendent. Rushdie ranks among the finest novelists ever. Some writers should be read. Others must be read. If you truly love fiction, you must read this novel. Enough said.
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Rushdie is an author whom I had mentally classified over the years as clever, but difficult to like, while feeling slightly guilty about not having read more of his work. I had read "Midnight's Children", been put off by the controversy over the "Satanic Verses" and by the reviews and subject matter of some of his other books (e.g. "The ground beneath her feet").
"Shalimar the Clown" completely changed this assessment. It is a book I never would have read, if I hadn't been prompted to ... Read More
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As it turned out, Shalimar was anything but a clown. True, as a young man he was well known for his antics on the high wire that were so funny that they made everyone forget just how dangerous they were. But when he and fellow Kashmiri Boonyi Kaul were just fourteen years old, they fell in love and Shalimar's life was changed forever. The two married soon after and settled into a life in rural Kashmir that included working together as regional entertainers.
All went well until Boonyi, ... Read More
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