(P/B) SHAME

Παρουσίαση

Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared the symptoms of pregnancy, as they did everything else, inseparably. At their six breasts, Omar was warned against all feelings and nuances of shame. It was training which would prove useful when he left his mothers' fortress (via the dumbwaiter) to face his shameless future. As captivating fairy-tale, devastating political satire and exquisite, uproarious entertainment, "Shame" is a novel without rival. (From the publisher)

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
"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 attacks language with energy and without constraint" (Independent)

Περιεχόμενα

I. Escapes from the Mother Country
The Dumb-waiter
A Necklace of Shoes
Melting Ice
II. The Duellists
Behind the Screen
The Wrong Miracle
Affairs of Honour
ΙΙI. Shame, Good News and the Virgin
Blushing
Beauty and the Beast
IV. In the Fifteenth Century
Alexander the Great
The Woman in the Veil
Monologue of a Hanged Man
Stability
V. Judgment Day
Acknowledgments