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Rushdie, Salman.

Shame : a novel / Salman Rushdie. - 2008 Random House trade paperback edition. - ix, 307 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is "not quite Pakistan." In this tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men--one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure--Rushdie portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation--"shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence."

ISBN: 9780812976700 0812976703

LCCN: 2008272674

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Shame--Fiction.
Shame.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Pakistan--Fiction.
Pakistan.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Political fiction.
Fiction.
Black humor (Literature)
Black humor.

LC Class. No.: PR6068.U757 / S5 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.914