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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 collecti

Who reads Shame : a Novel?

Author

Salman Rushdie

Publisher

Vintage Digital

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781409058823

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Science Fiction, Alternate Realities

Rating

3.83 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14