Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece.At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human 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 extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale.Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's most gripping novel and his boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be, an account of the intimate, flawed encounter between the East and the West, a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy, high (and low) passions, high (and low) culture. It is a tale of love, death, and rock 'n' roll.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Literature & Fiction

RUSHDIE,SALMAN

Contemporary

Vintage

In this brilliantly focussed and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming: a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions, of strange heroes and warrior-poets. Rushdie came to know an enormous range of people, from the foreign minister - a priest - to the midwife who kept a pet cow in her living room. His perceptions always heightened by his sensitivity and his unique flair for language, in "The Jaguar Smile", Rushdie brings us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, everything is contested, and life-or-death struggles are an everyday occurrence.

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

History

Americas

STEP ACROSS THIS LINE. COLLECTED NON-FICTION 1992-2002.

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Step Across This Line

Classics

Modern Library

The place is Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar, the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. This is the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter - and of a fourth character, the woman who links them all. The story of a deep love gone fatally wrong, destroyed by a shallow affair, it is an epic narrative that moves from California to France, England, and above all, Kashmir: a ruined paradise, not so much lost as smashed.

Shalimar the Clown

Review "A brilliant, fascinating, generous novel...wonderful" -- Ursula le Guin Guardian "A wild and whirling novel" Observer "For Rushdie, as for the artists he writes about, the pen is a magician's wand. There is more magic than realism in this latest novel. But it is, I think, one of his best. If The Enchantress of Florence doesn't win this year's Man Booker I'll curry my proof copy and eat it" Financial Times "My first

Enchantress of Florence

Genre Fiction

Los angeles, 1991 maximilian ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter india, slaughtered by his kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself shalimar the clown the dead man is a world war ii resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former united states ambassador to india, and subsequently americas counter-terrorism chief the murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal this is the story of max, his killer, and his daughter - and of a fourth character, the woman who links them, whose story explains them all the story of a deep love gone fatally wrong, destroyed by a shallow affair, it is an epic narrative that moves from california to france, england, and above all, kashmir at its heart is the tale of that earthly paradise of peach orchards and honey bees, of mountains and lakes, of green-eyed women and murderous men: a ruined paradise, not so much lost as smashed lives are uprooted, names keep changing - nothing is permanent, yet everything is connected spanning the globe and darting through history, salman rushdies majestic narrative captures the heart of the reader and the spirit of a troubled age

Literary

Random House UK Ltd.

'India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker

Midnight's Children

Vintage Books USA

The Enchantress of Florence

Vintage Books

Vintage Classics

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The Ground Beneath Her Feet

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

Step Across This Line

Shalimar the Clown

Enchantress of Florence

Shalimar the Clown

Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children

The Enchantress of Florence

Midnight's Children