Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie audiobook

Shalimar the Clown

By Salman Rushdie
Read by Aasif Mandvi

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18.08 Hours • Unabridged
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    ISBN: 9781449802400

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    ISBN: 9798212652001

This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America's counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the modern world; his Kashmiri Muslim driver and subsequent killer, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown; Max's illegitimate daughter India; and a woman who links them, whose revelation finally explains them all. It is an epic narrative that moves from California to Kashmir, France, and England, and back to California again. Along the way there are tales of princesses lured from their homes by demons, legends of kings forced to defend their kingdoms against evil. And there is always love, gained and lost, uncommonly beautiful and mortally dangerous.

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Summary

Summary

A New York Times bestseller

Longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize

A 2005 Whitbread Award Finalist

A 2005 New York Times Book Review Notable Book

A USA Today bestseller

A 2005 Time Magazine Top 10 Book

A 2005 Booklist Editors’ Choice

This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America's counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the modern world; his Kashmiri Muslim driver and subsequent killer, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown; Max's illegitimate daughter India; and a woman who links them, whose revelation finally explains them all. It is an epic narrative that moves from California to Kashmir, France, and England, and back to California again. Along the way there are tales of princesses lured from their homes by demons, legends of kings forced to defend their kingdoms against evil. And there is always love, gained and lost, uncommonly beautiful and mortally dangerous.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Brilliantly invented…Shalimar the Clown is a powerful parable about the willing and unwilling subversion of multiculturalism.” —William T. Vollman, National Book Award–winning author of Europe Central
“[Rushdie’s] novels pour by in a sparkling, voracious onrush, each wave topped with foam, each paragraph luxurious and delicious.” —New Yorker
“To inhale Salman Rushdie’s richly textured, exotic prose is to realize the insipid nature of most contemporary fiction…Genius…A master of the global novel.” —USA Today
“Rushdie’s most engaging book since Midnight’s Children. It is a lament. It is a revenge story. It is a love story. And it is a warning.” —Observer (London)
“While readers might stumble over the Kashmiri, Indian, and Pakistani names and accents, Mandvi glides right through them, allowing us to engage with Rushdie’s well-wrought characters and sagas. Mandvi has a calm, quiet storyteller voice…leaving us to relish the sounds and images and rhythms of Rushdie’s language.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“To characterize the novel as ‘rich’ seems inadequately broad as…a cogent descriptor of Rushdie’s sheer and magnificent talent. His beautifully metaphoric language and sly sense of humor keep his complex plot, with its layers of personal and cosmic meaning, tightly woven.” —Booklist
“Vintage Rushdie…A magical-realist masterpiece that equals, and arguably surpasses, the achievements of Midnight’s Children, Shame, and The Moor’s Last Sigh. The Swedes won’t dare to offend Islam by giving Rushie the Nobel Prize he deserves more than any other living writer. Injustice rules.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Author

Author Bio: Salman Rushdie

Author Bio: Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of a collection of short stories, a collection of essays, and fourteen novels, including Midnight's Children, which won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker. He has also published four works of nonfiction and coedited two anthologies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, he was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

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Available Formats : Digital Download, CD
Runtime: 18.08
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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