by Salman Rushdie · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266163200
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«Shalimar le clown» is Salman Rushdie's novel, published by Pocket in 2007, in paperback format (588 pages, in French).
The novel opens with the murder in Los Angeles of Maximilian Ophuls, former US ambassador, at the hands of his chauffeur, a mysterious Kashmiri who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The narrative interweaves the lives of both men and of the woman who unites them, a story of love and betrayal that travels from California to Kashmir and from France to England, where personal and political motives blend with legend and violence.
The work was originally published in English as Shalimar the Clown; this French Pocket edition includes the translation by Claro and belongs to the Best collection. The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2005.
Recommended for readers of Rushdie and contemporary literary fiction seeking an epic story with a political backdrop, set between the West and Kashmir.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
