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Shalimar the Clown

by Salman Rushdie

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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 1998 Jonathan Cape 514 pages
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Non-Western Literature
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DDC 823.914 LCC PR-6068.00000000.U757 AdultereAdulteryAdultery in fictionAmbassadeursAmbassadorsAmbassadors in fictionAmericansAmericans in fiction
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ISBN 9780812976984 English First-edition ISBN: 9781407018614
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