4.0
The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame 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.” Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.
Incredibly written, each sentence evokes a different thought. Taken one way, brought back again another, a story weaved as intricately as one of Rani's shawls.
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Language:
English
Length:
287 pages
Author:
Salman Rushdie
