SHALIMAR THE CLOWN (SIGNED to Full Title Page)
by Salman Rushdie
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0679463356
- ISBN 13
- 9780679463351
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HARDCOVER. SIGNED in Person at the Book Signing Event. SHALIMAR THE CLOWN by Salman Rushdie (2005). SIGNED to the Full Title page by Salman Rushdie, the author. Near Brand New and Never Owned. This is a FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing copy as stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket is in Brand New Condition. Brand New condition with no issues. The book has no tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price-clipped, not a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, First Printing copy, hand SIGNED to the Full Title page. No inscription; full signature only. From an event featuring Sir Salman Rushdie in New York City on October 1, 2008. FREE: A copy of the complete eight-page program of Symphony Space 2008/2009 Event Booklet showing his visit on October 1, 2008. This book will be carefully wrapped and shipped with free delivery confirmation. **** Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels—Grimus, Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Moor's Last Sigh, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Quichotte, and The Golden House—and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction—Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line—and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. Shalimar the Clown was published on September 6, 2005. ISBN: 978-0679-4633-51. BS13602.
Synopsis
Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story.Max Ophuls' memorablelife ends violently in Los Angeles in 1993 when he is murdered by his Muslim driver Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar the Clown. At first the crime seems to be politically motivated -- Ophuls was previously ambassador to India, and later US counterterrorism chief -- but it is much more.Ophuls is a giant, an architect of the modern world: a Resistance hero and best-selling author, brilliant economist and clandestine US intelligence official. But it is as Ambassador to India that the seeds of his demise are planted, thanks to another of his great roles -- irresistible lover. Visiting the Kashmiri village of Pachigam, Ophuls lures an impossibly beautiful dancer, the ambitious (and willing) Boonyi Kaul, away from her husband, and installs her as his mistress in Delhi. But their affair cannot be kept secret, and when Boonyi returns home, disgraced and obese, it seems that all she has waiting for her is the inevitable revenge of her husband: Noman Sher Noman, Shalimar the Clown. He was an acrobat and tightrope walker in their village's traditional theatrical troupe; but soon Shalimar is trained as a militant in Kashmir's increasingly brutal insurrection, and eventually becomes a terrorist with a global remit and a deeply personal mission of vengeance.With sweeping brilliance, Salman Rushdie portrays fanatical mullahs as fully as documentary filmmakers, rural headmen as completely as British spies; he describes villages that compete to make the most splendid feasts, the mentality behind martial law, and the celebrity of Los Angeles policemen, all with the same genius.But the main story is only part of the story. In this stunningly rich book everything is connected, and everyone is a part of everyone else. Shalimar the Clown is a true work of the era of globalization, intricately mingling lives and countries, and finding unexpected and sometimes tragic connections between the seemingly disparate. The violent fate of Kashmir recalls Strasbourg's experience in World War Two; Resistance heroism against the Nazis counterpoints Al-Qaeda's terror in Pakistan, North Africa and the Philippines. 1960s Pachigam is not so far from post-war London, or the Hollywood-driven present-day Los Angeles where Max's daughter by Boonyi, India Ophuls, beautiful, strong-willed, modern, waits, as vengeance plays itself out.A powerful love story, intensely political and historically informed, Shalimar the Clown is also profoundly human, an involving story of people's lives, desires and crises -- India Ophuls' desperate search for her real mother, for example; Max's wife's attempts to deal with his philandering -- as well as, in typical Rushdie fashion, a magical tale where the dead speak and the future can be foreseen.Shalimar the Clown is steeped in both the Hindu epic Ramayana and the great European novelists, melding the storytelling traditions of east and west into a magnificently fruitful blend -- and serves, itself, as a corrective to the destructive clashes of values it scorchingly depicts. Enthralling, comic and amazingly abundant, it will no doubt come to be seen as one of the key books of our time.The second portent came on the morning of the murder, when Shalimar the driver approached Max Ophuls at breakfast, handed him his schedule card for the day, and gave in his notice. The ambassador's drivers tended to be short-term...
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS13602
- Title
- SHALIMAR THE CLOWN (SIGNED to Full Title Page)
- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER w/ Dust Jacket Cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679463356
- ISBN 13
- 9780679463351
- Publisher
- Random House; First Edition edition (September 6, 2005)
- Place of Publication
- UNITED STATES
- Date Published
- Sept 6, 2005
- Keywords
- Literary Fiction, Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED BOOKS;
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