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Tri-mother upbringing, love ignites familial conflict.

If you're drawn to intricate tales that blend the surreal with sharp social commentary, "Shame" by Salman Rushdie is a compelling choice. Rushdie's narrative is an artful tapestry, weaving together themes of identity, cultural pressures, and the paradoxes of human behavior. His prose is a rich concoction that dazzles with wit and a profound grasp of the absurdities that drive our personal and collective lives. This book promises a journey through a world where the line between reality and allegory blurs, offering a read that's as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (1983)
  • Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1985)
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ISBN: 9780099578611
Authors: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 1995-05-18
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.86
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Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms of pregnancy, they shared the son that they all claim to have borne on the same night. Raised at their six breasts, Omar's mothers teach him to live a life without shame. And it is training that proves very useful when he leaves his mothers’ fortress and makes the fateful mistake of falling in love. For he finds himself an unwitting player in an ongoing duel between the families of two men – one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure – living in a world caught between honour and humiliation, where a moment of shame could prove fatal.
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Tri-mother upbringing, love ignites familial conflict.

If you're drawn to intricate tales that blend the surreal with sharp social commentary, "Shame" by Salman Rushdie is a compelling choice. Rushdie's narrative is an artful tapestry, weaving together themes of identity, cultural pressures, and the paradoxes of human behavior. His prose is a rich concoction that dazzles with wit and a profound grasp of the absurdities that drive our personal and collective lives. This book promises a journey through a world where the line between reality and allegory blurs, offering a read that's as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (1983)
  • Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1985)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.