Shalimar the Clown
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by Salman Rushdie
narrated by Aasif Mandvi
Genre: Modern Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Media: CD
Book Reference: DIR1722
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7801 2
Duration: 18h 15m (approx.) on 15 CDs
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: £29.35
Synopsis
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown.
The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal.
Reviews and Press Quotes
Financial Times
“This book is a rare high-wire act, a literary thriller.”
Observer
“Rushdie combines the wonder of a fairy tale with the grittiness of hard political realism.”
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