Shame - Hardcover

Rushdie, Salman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224029525 ISBN 13: 9780224029520

Publisher: Random House UK, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Rushdie Salman

About this title

About the Author:

Sir Salman Rushdie has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the `Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

Review:

Shame is a lively, amusing and exasperating work .... What he invents, with enormous gusto, is "a sort of modern fairy tale".... I found Mr. Rushdie's style a source of delight, a bright stream of words that lifted me happily past the most threatening snags and whirlpools of this impossible tale. -- The New York Times Book Review, Robert Towers

There can seldom have been so robust and baroque an incarnation of the political novel as Shame. It can be read as a fable, polemic or excoriation; as history or as fiction.... This is the novel as myth and as satire. -- Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0224029525
• ISBN 13: 9780224029520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288