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Audiobooks Narrated by Aasif Mandvi
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"Sparkling and combustible" (Bloomberg Businessweek), "DISGRACED rubs all kinds of unexpected raw spots with intelligence and humor" (Newsday). "In dialogue that bristles with wit and intelligence, Akhtar puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born into one way of being who have embraced another.... Everyone has been told that politics and religion are two subjects that should be off-limits at social gatherings. But watching these characters rip into these forbidden topics, there's no arguing that they make for ear-tickling good theater" (New York Times). "Add a liberal flow of alcohol and a couple of major secrets suddenly revealed, and you've got yourself one dangerous dinner party" (Associated Press).
From Salman Rushdie'New York Times best-selling author, Booker Prize winner, and one of the great voices in contemporary literature'comes a majestic novel that solidifies the author's right to a Nobel Prize, which Kirkus Reviews says 'he deserves more than any other living writer. In Shalimar the Clown, Rushdie effortlessly weaves a series of interconnected narratives to form a sweeping and ambitious tale'at once timeless and startlingly modern'that reaches back through the years and across the continents.
Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul, one of the world's most acclaimed authors, effortlessly tackles provocative ideas that lesser novelists shy away from'and always leaves his audience with something to think about. Willie Chandran feels as though the life he lives is not his own. But his listlessness washes away in a flood of encouragement from his radically political sister. Inspired, he joins an underground liberation movement in India. But after years of revolution and incarceration, he grows disillusioned and returns to England, still hoping to find his true self.
'The best novelist now writing in English '''New York Review of Books
