ShameKnopf Canada, 31 déc. 2010 - 320 pages The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men—one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure—Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation —“shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.” Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day. |
Table des matières
Chapter One The DumbWaiter | 3 |
Chapter Two A Necklace of Shoes | 19 |
Chapter Three Melting Ice | 39 |
Chapter Four Behind the Screen | 55 |
Chapter Five The Wrong Miracle | 69 |
Chapter Six Affairs of Honour | 90 |
Chapter Seven Blushing | 117 |
Chapter Eight Beauty and the Beast | 151 |
Chapter Nine Alexander the Great | 185 |
Chapter Ten The Woman in the Veil | 207 |
Chapter Eleven Monologue of a Hanged Man | 233 |
Chapter Twelve Stability | 254 |
Acknowledgments | 307 |
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