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Shame: A Novel 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Catalog: Book Release date: 2008-03-11 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 320 Ean: 9780812976700 Book Isbn: 0812976703  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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| In this brilliant novel, Salman Rushdie masterfully combines history, art, language, politics, and religion. Set in a country "not quite Pakistan," the story centers around the families of two men -- one a celebrated warrior, the other, a debauched playboy engaged in a protracted duel that is played out in the political landscape of their country. Shame is a tour de force and a fitting predecessor to the author's legendary novel, The Satanic Verses. |
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 Written on January 26, 1999 Summary: very funny, often disturbing. wonderful fantasy-history rushdie tells wonderful stories about terrible things, and shame is often hilarious and terrifying at the same time. for all the boggling cruelty inflicted upon humans in the book, i still can't get the image of the poor turkeys out of my mind.  Written on September 3, 1998 Summary: still a good read... but disappointing Everything's relative, but compared to _Midnight's Children_ and _Satanic Verses_ Rushdie's novel about Pakistan left me a bit dubious of my distinction of him as an unwavering literary superstar. I always enjoy his writing style, but I wonder if his strict political satire of the ruling classes in _Shame_ is as powerful as the epic parody in _MC_. This novel just appeared a bit more of a closed text with such seemingly visible agendas that I wondered to what extent crossing the fictional borders of countries could affect someone's writing. Written on July 15, 1998 Summary: Salman Rushdie's funniest most lucid book. I don't know what I remember most from this book. Was it Bhutto being parodied as Virgin Ironpants or the only pure characters taking off to the hill to be guerrilla soldiers, only to find themselves debating over whether sheep or goats make better sex partners. With what little I know about Pakistani history I could piece together who Rushdie was mocking and what was happening. This is a deep intellectual novel, that is disguised as a burlesque. While you read it you'll be thinking of the big issues that Rushdie presents. Afterwards you'll admit how much more memorable were the dirty jokes. Written on April 9, 1997 Summary: Beautifully disturbing Shame is, in my opinion, the finest novel Rushdie has written yet. It's much darker thanany of his other work, disturbingly so, and the violence is of a kind not found in his other novels.The book traverses the sub-continent, moving through Bangladesh, India and Pakistan as effortlessly as the consciousness of most of the people who call themselves Bangladeshi, Indian or Pakistani. The emotion of Shame is a hook on which the novel is built. It isn't the center, though Rushdie often focuses on instances where his characters flush with redness. Rushdie spent part of his childhood in Pakistan (and has gone back since), the novel is pieced together, like most of Rushdie from a remembering that is incomplete and where the gaps are filled by fantasy. Shame attains a balance between the imaginatively outrageous and the real as it moves through time in the "other" country on the sub-continent. The story of a man/child who grows up in and, perhaps, out of a house with three aunts, each of whom is his mother, Shame stands for the people of the north-western sub-continent as only a work infused with divinely sharp humour can. Before the Satanic Verses, there was Shame, and Shame engaged in the same mode of literate heresy that Rushdie employed later in Satanic Verses. Only in Shame it was the root of all middle-eastern religions, Zoroastrianism that Rushdie focused on. And his repetition of a similar ancient heresy, like SV questioning the sharp distinction made between darkness and light (in God and creation), in the context of a faith that acknowledges, even births the Manacheean heresy. In a similar manner, Shame explores the realm between the human and barely human, and the madness that is in all of us. Shame isn't an easy read, it may even be so disturbing as to irritate you. But for me it is the supreme height of Rushdie's fiction to date, the strangest and most penetrating of all his work. -- Subir Grewal |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2008-03-11 | 2006-04-04 | 2008-03-11 | 2008-05-27 | 2006-10-10 | 1998-01-03 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 320 | 560 | 576 | 368 | 416 | 448 |
| Ean | 9780812976700 | 9780812976533 | 9780812976717 | 9780375504334 | 9780679783480 | 9780099592419 |
| Book Isbn | 0812976703 | 0812976533 | 0812976711 | 0375504338 | 0679783482 | 009959241X |
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