Shalimar the Clown
Author(s): Salman Rushdie
The place is Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death 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 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: a ruined paradise, not so much lost as smashed.
Product Information
Rushdie's finest novel for years
Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Vintage
- : 0.285
- : 01 October 2006
- : 200mm X 129mm X 25mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Salman Rushdie
- : Paperback
- : English
- : good
- : 416