Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie

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English

Vintage
02 October 2006

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

'This is Rushdie at his most flamboyant best' John Sutherland, Financial Times

'Rushdie's most engaging book since Midnight's Children' Observer

Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home of Kashmir. But fate has played him cruelly, torn him away from his beloved home and brought him to Los Angeles, where he works as a chauffeur. One morning he gets up, goes to work, and brutally slays his employer, America's former counter-terrorist chief Maximilian Ophuls, in full view of the victim's illegitimate daughter, India. Despite the political overtones, it soon emerges that this is a murder with a much darker heart to it.

The killing has its roots halfway across the globe, back in Kashmir, a ruined paradise not so much lost as shattered. And gradually it emerges that beyond this unholy trinity of Max, India and Shalimar, lurks a fourth, shadowy figure, one who binds them all together.

'This is Rushdie at his most flamboyant best' Financial Times

By: Salman Rushdie
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 288g
ISBN: 9780099421887
ISBN 10: 0099421887
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 02 October 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Salman Rushdie is the author of eight novels, one collection of short stories, and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

Reviews for Shalimar the Clown

A brilliant symphony... Exceptional... One of Rushdie's best novels yet Independent Extraordinary... Worth engaging with at every level; a thrilling story told in thrilling language -- Erica Wagner The Times Shalimar the Clown is Rushdie's most engaging book since Midnight's Children. It is a lament. It is a revenge story. it is a love story. And it is a warning -- Jason Cowley Observer Deeply disturbing and immensely moving... An exquisite, broken thing of pain and beauty Independent Excellent... A characteristically daring walk along the tightrope of fiction Sunday Telegraph