Shame : a novel

Salman Rushdie combines magic realism with a fierce rivalry to illustrate his central theme - that shame begets violence and violence begets shame. “[Rushdie’s] novels pour by in a sparkling, voracious onrush... each paragraph luxurious and delicious” (The New Yorker).“A pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives.” - The Times UKShame is set in an imaginary country that strongly resembles Pakistan - a vast, sprawling canvas that illuminates its history, language and politics. The story involves the rivalry between two very different men - one a celebrated warrior, the other a debauched playboy - who are engaged in a protracted duel that is played out in the political landscape of their country.“Shame is and is not about Pakistan, that invented, an 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.” — The Guardian UKSalman Rushdie has been nominated for the Booker Prize seven times, winning once in 1981, and was knighted for services to literature in 2007. He is the author of 14 novels and has also written a collection of short stories and four works of non-fiction. He was shortlisted, for his entire body of work, for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize. and joined the Companions of Honour in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in her Platinum Jubilee year. 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. From The Trade Paperback Edition. In het hedendaagse Pakistan, met zijn grote tegenstelling tussen rijk en arm, zijn machtsstrijd, politiek gekonkel en corruptie dagelijks voorkomende verschijnselen.