Shame: A Novel

Salman Rushdie

Feb 2011 · Sold by Random House

About this ebook

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 men–one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure–Rushdie 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.

Ratings and reviews

Put 5 Stats so you will notice this. Why this guys seem prefer to write something out of his own belief? Such as bad human being. So shame.

One who has not read Salman rushdie will take time to grapple with the things and take in hold of as he draws from history, art and culture, politics, geographical location positioning himself, but always in askance about identity and introduction. Can the idea of dissociation and dislocation be the end of the story? How have the post-colonial people dealt with freedom, liberty and independence; how much loyal have they proved to be? Maladministration and mismanagement with so much of malice, vengeance, hatred, jealousy and narrow mentality will but lead to nowhere rather than provocation. Midnight children have nothing but the stories of shame to share with.

Shame

About the author

Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, East, West; a memoir, Joseph Anton; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three collections of essays, most recently Languages of Truth. His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America. His books have been translated into over forty languages.