Shame: A Novel

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Macmillan, 2000 - 307 pages
Winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger

In his brilliant third novel, first published in 1983, Salman Rushdie gives us a lively and colorful mixture of history, art, language, politics, and religion. Set in a country "not quite Pakistan," the story centers around the family of two men—one a celebrated warrior, the other a debauched playboy—engaged in a protracted duel that is played out in the political landscape of their country.
 

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ESCAPES FROM THE MOTHER COUNTRY
1
The DumbWaiter
3
A Necklace of Shoes
19
Melting Ice
39
THE DUELLISTS
53
Behind the Screen
55
The Wrong Miracle
69
Affairs of Honour
90
Beauty and the Beast
151
IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
183
Alexander the Great
185
The Woman in the Veil
207
Monologue of a Hanged Man
233
Stability
254
JUDGMENT DAY
281
Acknowledgments

SHAME GOOD NEWS AND THE VIRGIN
115
Blushing
117

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À propos de l'auteur (2000)

Salman Rushdie was born in India on June 19, 1947. He was raised in Pakistan and educated in England. His novels include Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, and The Golden House. His non-fiction works include Joseph Anton, Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and Step across This Line. He also wrote a collection of short stories entitled East, West. He has received numerous awards including the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel twice, the James Tait Black Prize, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight's Children, and the 2014 PEN/Pinter Prize.

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