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.
“[Rushdie’s] novels pour by in a sparkling, voracious onrush . . .
each paragraph luxurious and delicious.”—The New Yorker
“A pitch-black comedy of public life and its historical
imperatives.”—The Times (UK)
“There can seldom have been so robust and baroque an incarnation of
the political novel as Shame. It can be read as a fable, polemic,
or excoriation; as history or as fiction. . . . This is the novel
as myth and as satire.”—Sunday Telegraph
“Shame is and is not about Pakistan, that invented, imaginary
country, ‘a failure of the dreaming mind.’ . . . Rushdie shows us
with what fantasy our sort of history must now be written—if, that
is, we are to penetrate it, and perhaps even save it.”—The
Guardian
“Mr. Rushdie’s style [is] a source of delight, a bright stream of
words . . . a voice at once whimsical, sly and exclamatory, full of
apostrophes and asides, flexible enough to incorporate the
up-to-date slang and obscenities of the warring men and the
peculiar speech rhythms . . . of the Pakistani ladies in a state of
excitement.”—The New York Times Book Review
“The extravagantly tragicomic nightmare evoked by Shame . . . does
for Pakistan what Mr. Rushdie’s equally remarkable . . . Midnight’s
Children did for India. The narrative voice of Shame creates its
own irresistible logic. In a postscript to his story, the author
acknowledges having quoted Milan Kundera, Franz Kafka, Nikolai
Erdmann and Georg Büchner. Here and there in the text, one can’t
help thinking of Gabriel García Márquez. These are extraordinary
writers with whom to be associated, but it’s company that Salman
Rushdie deserves.”—The New York Times
“Revelation and obscurity, affairs of honor, blushings of all
parts, the recession of erotic life, the open violence of public
life, create the extraordinary Rushdie mood.”—The Guardian
(London)
“Shame should consolidate [Rushdie’s] position as one of the finest
young writers around. This novel of crossed family destinies in
contemporary Pakistan teems with interesting characters, dramatic
events, and marvelous verbal inventions. Like its predecessor, it
recreates an exotic but thoroughly believable world that is a
delight to experience. . . . A wonderful book.”—Quill & Quire
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