Shalimar the Clown
The lives of two vastly different men intersect for one fatal moment. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls is stabbed in broad daylight by his Kashmiri Muslim chauffeur, a tragic eccentric who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. To explain how they arrived at that point, Salman Rushdie must reach back into...
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The lives of two vastly different men intersect for one fatal moment. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls is stabbed in broad daylight by his Kashmiri Muslim chauffeur, a tragic eccentric who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. To explain how they arrived at that point, Salman Rushdie must reach back into the history of three continents and construct a parable of multiculturalism. A finely textured novel by "a perpetual storyteller."
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780679783480
Publish date: 10-10-2006
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Edition language: English
If you ask google(tm) for Rushdie pictures, most of them are of him in possession of India Padma Lakshmi. The persona 'India' in this dark tale is a symbolic device to show how Islam wishes to embrace the whole sub-continent (and beyond of course - it is an expansionist/sword doctrine, as was Christ...
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