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A masterful combination of history, myth, art, language, politics and religion from this legendary writer.

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The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie´s phantasmagoric epic

Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms of pregnancy, they shared the son that they all claim to have borne on the same night. Raised at their six breasts, Omar´s mothers teach him to live a life without shame. And it is training that proves very useful when he leaves his mothers´ fortress and makes the fateful mistake of falling in love. For he finds himself an unwitting player in an ongoing duel between the families of two men - one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure - living in a world caught between honour and humiliation, where a moment of shame could prove fatal. ´Shame is every bit as good as Midnight´s Children. It is a pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives´ The Times

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"It is an astute, gleeful, political tale in which Rushdie dazzles with his prodigious gift for satire." Guardian

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Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen previous novels - Grimus, Midnight´s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor´s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, and The Golden House - and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of non-fiction - Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line - and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

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