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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 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 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....
