Sir Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown (15 CDs unabridged)

General Information
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Title: Shalimar the Clown
Author: Salman Rushdie
Read By: Aasif Mandvi
Copyright: 2005
Audiobook Copyright: 2005
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Publisher: Recorded Books LLC
Abridged: No

Original Media Information
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ISBN: 978-1-4193-3999-8 or 1-4193-3999-0
Media: CD
Number: 15
Source: Rental
Condition: Good

Book Description
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. For Westerners, Rushdie's latest may be better heard
than read. While readers might stumble over the Kashmiri, Indian and
Pakistani names and accents, Mandvi glides right through them, allowing
us to engage with Rushdie's well-wrought characters and sagas. Mandvi
has a calm, quiet storyteller voice, often employing tempo to express
emotional states and to make long, complex sentences entirely clear.
In fact, one realizes he is nearly invisible (until he reads a few lines
in a Romance language), leaving us to relish the sounds and images and
rhythms of Rushdie's language. The book begins at the end, with the
murder of the former American ambassador to India, Maximilian Ophuls,
now a counterterrorist expert, then introduces his murderer, Shalimar
the Clown, Kashmiri actor and acrobat-cum-terrorist, and Ophuls's illegitimate
daughter, India, who brings the book to a conclusion as terror-filled
and ambiguous as our own future. Suspense and tension are superbly built
and layered through mythology and plots of lust and jealousy intertwined
with cultural, religious, national and international affairs. Rushdie
does get polemical for a while, even didactic; his writing in these
sections sometimes sounds speechifying. Yet we come away with a mostly
lyrical parable that offers us a way of grappling with the realities
of our time and place, a way of refracting history through multiple
lenses.
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