The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Zusatztext At the beginning of this stunning novel! Vina Apsara! a famous and much-lovedsinger! is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again byhuman eyes. This is her story! and that of Ormus Cama! the lover who finds!loses! seeks and again finds her! over and over! throughout his own extraordinarylife in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friendand Vina's sometime lover! the photographer Rai. Around these three! theuncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. This is SalmanRushdie's boldest imaginative act! a vision of our shaken! mutating times!an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be! an account ofthe intimate! flawed encounter between the East and the West! a brilliantremaking of the myth of Orpheus. Informationen zum Autor Salman Rushdie Klappentext 'The first great rock 'n' roll novel in the English language' The TimesOn Valentine's Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake. Zusammenfassung ‘The first great rock ’n’ roll novel in the English language’ The TimesOn Valentine’s Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake.

Product details

• Authors: Salman Rushdie
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.02.2000
• EAN: 9780099766018
• ISBN: 978-0-09-976601-8
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 37 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, Rock and Roll, London, Greater London, FICTION / Literary, Rock & Pop music, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Mumbai, India, Magical Realism, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989