Shame

Zusatztext New Vintage edition. Informationen zum Autor Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame , The Satanic Verses , Quichotte and Victory City . His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Report

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

Product details

• Authors: Salman Rushdie, Rushdie Salman
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.05.1995
• EAN: 9780099578611
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957861-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Arrow Paperbacks; Arrow Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Pakistan, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Myth & legend told as fiction, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales