Shame

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  • 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, Asia
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Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and hereOmar 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.
 

  • 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.