A hugely entertaining, and spectacular pitch-black comedy. The city is bubbling with fury and mired in mayhem from a serial killer that is on the loose and all of the petty resentments of the city threaten to engulf his very existence. Credit: Penguin Fury (2002)Īfter a series of exits and personal failures, Malik Solanka steps into a new life in New York City. Haroun flies off on the back of the Hoopie bird to the Sea of Stories in a bid to deliver to his father the gift of storytelling. Rushdie dedicated this book to his son, from whom he was separated for some time.Īt once magical and fantastical, the story is set when Haroun’s father, an expert storyteller, runs out of stories to tell. Written in the shadow of the fatwā, Haroun and the Sea is about the dangers of story-telling and serves as a metaphorical defence of the power of stories that have been silenced.

The Financial Times call this “ Rushdie at his most flamboyant best.” Credit: Penguin Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1991) Heavy with political overtones, the roots of Shalimar the Clown are deeply grounded in the diaspora of Kashmir. One day he gets up, goes to work and brutally kills his boss, America’s former counter-terrorism chief Maximilian Ophuls, in full view of the victim’s illegitimate daughter, India. Torn away from his native home of Kashmir and brought to Los Angeles where he works as a chauffeur, his past as a legendary skilled tightrope walker is but a distant memory. Credit: Penguin Shalimar the Clown (2006)įate played Shalimar a cruel hand. It is a pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives” - The Times. “ Shame is every bit as good as Midnight’s Children.

I n a brilliant tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men – one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure – Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.

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