A masterful combination of history, myth, art, language, politics and religion from this legendary writer.
Sir Salman Rushdie has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
It is an astute, gleeful, political tale in which Rushdie dazzles
with his prodigious gift for satire.
*Guardian*
Salman Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great
story tellers
*Observer*
There can seldom have been so robust and baroque an incarnation of
the political novel as Shame. It can be read as a fable, polemic or
excoriation; as history or as fiction... This is the novel as myth
and as satire
*Sunday Telegraph*
Shame is every bit as good as Midnight's Children. It is a
pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives
*The Times*
Salman Rushdie is a magnificent writer. He has a free-ranging
imagination and a coarse, strong wit. He attackes language with
energy and without constraint
*Independent*
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