Shalimar The Clown Salman Rushdie by Salman Rushdie 9780099421887, 9781588364845, 0099421887, 1588364844 instant download after payment.

A killing in Los Angeles has its roots in a shattered paradise halfway across the globe, in Salman Rushdie’s inventive and powerful fiction.

Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home of Kashmir. But fate has played him cruelly, torn him away from his beloved land and brought him to Los Angeles, where he works as a chauffeur. One morning he gets up, goes to work, and brutally slays his employer. Despite the political overtones, it soon emerges that this is a murder with a much darker heart…

"This is a highly serious novel, on an extremely serious subject, by a deeply serious man. It is not necessary to assimilate all the details of the conflict in Kashmir in order to read it. (...) Rather than seek anything as trite as a "message", I should guess that Rushdie is telling us: No more Macondos. No more Shangri-las, if it comes to that. Gone is the time when anywhere was exotic or magical or mythical, or even remote."   -   Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly

Salman Rushdie has been nominated for the Booker Prize seven times, winning once in 1981, and was knighted for services to literature in 2007.  He is the author of 14 novels and has also written a collection of short stories and four works of non-fiction. He was shortlisted, for his entire body of work, for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize. and joined the Companions of Honour in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in her Platinum Jubilee year.