The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is ';not quite Pakistan.' In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two menone a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasureRushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation ';shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.' Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.From the Trade Paperback edition.
| ISBN: | 9780307367778 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 2010 |
| Author: | Rushdie, Salman |
| Publisher: | Knopf Canada |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |