The Ground Beneath Her Feet
$41.60
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2000
Summary
‘This is a fabulous, glowing, witty and brilliant epic… This is the Ulysses of rock ‘n’ roll…glittering writing - humane and very funny’ Ruth Padel, Independent
‘The first great rock ‘n’ roll novel in the English language’ The Times
On Valentine’s Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake. Her lover, the singer Ormus Cama, cannot accept that he has lost her, and so begins his eternal quest to find her and bring her back. His…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099766018 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099766019 |
| Author: | Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2000 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 36mm |
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“A ground-breaking work… Rushdie turns our century of celebrity and atrocity inside out. He makes you see the world in a new light” Time Out “The first great rock ‘n’ roll novel in the English language” The Times “Uniquely exhilarating…Salman Rushdie once more proves his mastery… His sheer linguistic energy is a delight” Sunday Telegraph “A carnival of words…a triumphant hymn to the transforming power of love” The Times
About The Author
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children - for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary - Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
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