Shalimar The Clown - Hardcover

Rushdie, Salman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679463356 ISBN 13: 9780679463351

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Rushdie Salman

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Reseña del editor

In 1991, Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls--a World War II Resistance hero, ex-ambassador to India, and America's counterterrorism chief--is murdered on the Los Angeles doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, who calls himself Shalimar the clown, in a sweeping story of love and revenge in a troubled age. 100,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor

Salman Rushdie was born in 1947. He is the author of eight previous novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury. He has published a collection of short stories, East, West, a book of reportage, The Jaguar Smile, two collections of essays, Imaginary Homelands and Step Across This Line, and a work of film criticism about The Wizard of Oz.

Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children, was awarded both the Booker Prize and the “Booker of Bookers,” as the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. His other accolades include the Whitbread Novel Award, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. Salman Rushdie lives in London and New York.

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0679463356
• ISBN 13: 9780679463351
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 398