Shalimar the Clown

Name: Shalimar the Clown
Author: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9780812976984

by Salman Rushdie

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Originally published by Jonathan Cape

Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered 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...

First published 1998514 pages

823.914

Category: Non-Western Literature
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 3
Editions known: 32

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 823.914
Library of Congress (LCC): PR6068.U757PR6068.U757 S47 2005PR9499.30000000.R8 S49PR9499.30000000 R8 S53 2005

Subjects

AdultereAdulteryAdultery in fictionAmbassadeursAmbassadorsAmbassadors in fictionAmericansAmericans in fictionAssassinationAssassination in fictionAssassinsAssassins in fiction

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ISBN 9780812976984EnglishFirst-edition ISBN: 9781407018614

DATE DUE

First published1998

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