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Shame : a novel / Salman Rushdie.

By: Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008Edition: 2008 Random House trade paperback editionDescription: ix, 307 pages : portrait ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780812976700
  • 0812976703
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 22
LOC classification:
  • PR6068.U757 S5 2008
Summary: 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."
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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."