Shame

It is an astute, gleeful, political tale in which Rushdie dazzles with his prodigious gift for satire. * Guardian *
Salman Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great story tellers * Observer *
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 every bit as good as Midnight’s Children. It is a pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives * The Times *
Salman Rushdie is a magnificent writer. He has a free-ranging imagination and a coarse, strong wit. He attackes language with energy and without constraint * Independent *
Shame is and is not about Pakistan, that invented, imaginary country… The theme is shame and shamelessness, born from the violence which is modern history. Revelation and obscurity, affairs of honour, blushings of all parts, the recession of erotic life, the open violence of public life, create the extraordinary Rushdie mood * Guardian *
Every bit as good as Midnight’s Children * The Times *

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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