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Original Title:	Shalimar the Clown
ISBN:	0679783482 (ISBN13: 9780679783480)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2005), Crossword Book Award for Fiction (2005), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2007)

Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie

Paperback | Pages: 398 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 12616 Users | 899 Reviews

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Title	:	Shalimar the Clown
Author	:	Salman Rushdie
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 398 pages
Published	:	October 10th 2006 by Random House Trade (first published September 6th 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Magical Realism. Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction

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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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I enjoyed this a lot. Compared to Rushdie's style in The Satanic Verses his magical realism here is more subtle and toned down to the point where it enhances rather than disrupting my suspension-of-disbelief. At one point magic even forms the case for the defence in a trial in an entirely believable way: the argument is, as my friend Alicia pointed out to me recently "If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences". The magical strand helps to creates a wonderful,

Revisited for the 2019 Mookse Madness tournament. The book opens with the murder of Max Ophuls a WWII Resistance hero from Strasbourg (itself a disputed territory fought over between Germans and French and so analogous to Kashmir), turned maker of many of the institutions of the modern world, turned initially popular ambassador to India turned Americas counter-terrorism chief. He is assassinated by his Kashmiri Muslim driver a mysterious character called Shalimar the Clown.The book tells the

Rating: 4.5 starsA mournful lament of the paradise that was Kashmir ("a ruined paradise, not so much lost as smashed", says the blurb) wrapped in an enticing tale of love, loss, hatred, relegious extremism, power and that ubiquitous, terribly influential entity - luck. The writing is fabulous - at once evocative, captivating, heartbreaking and magical - and the characters are very real. I read this book on cramped and somewhat-raining train journeys across the beautiful, pond-filled terrain of

I even dreamt of it.Hear, hear: Rushdie is Márquez. That's the secret, that's the catch.Shalimar started with invoking Agha Shahid Ali and Shakespeare. No index, non, what use would it be anyway in a masterpiece that follows but time reversal invariance? And so-There's General Kachwahha, who goes after our Chinar (another one bites the dust!) but was insane before it. We have Talib, another tragedian, whose name means knowledge and who has a boy to attend to his needs of the night and is in

At times, this rambling, rambunctious rollercoaster of a read is feathered by the genius seen in Rushdie's Midnight's Children, at other times it becomes mired in an overload of Indian/Pakistani/Kashmiri political history, which is great for providing context but stems the otherwise rampant flow of this terrific story.As you would expect from the great man, the humour is irreverent and the human imagery transcendent. To offset this, there is pathos-a-plenty and at times the story is unbearably

I was so impressed by this book that it's taken me awhile to work out what to say.... primarily, what fascinated me was the grace and effortlessness with which it moves from one setting to another: a large chunk is set in Kashmir, covering much of the last half of the 20th century; another large chunk in Europe (primarily France) during the Second World War; the last chunk in Los Angeles in the 1990s. Each of these settings and historical periods is richly detailed; a lesser author would have

I've been a reader for some time now & I've read a few good books but none of them have made me realise the power of fiction. Until now. Until I picked up 'Shalimar the Clown'.Had anyone ever given us a non-fiction book about the issues related to Kashmir as raised in this book, we'd have probably abandoned it after 100 pages or so & I'm not lying or judging anyone when I say that, since that is pretty normal. That is perhaps since most of us have been watching the same thing over &