Shalimar the Clown

by Salman Rushdie narrated by Aasif Mandvi

Genre: Fiction > Modern Fiction

Cassette Edition

978 1 84505 955 2
H1922

Published: Mar 2006
No. of Cassettes: 12
Duration: 18h 15m

List Price: £51.00

CD Edition

978 1 84505 873 9
CU287

Published: May 2006
No. of CDs: 15
Duration: 18h 15m

List Price: £63.00

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Synopsis

Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown.

The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal.

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Reviews & Press Quotes

Financial Times

“This book is a rare high-wire act, a literary thriller.”

Observer

“Rushdie combines the wonder of a fairy tale with the grittiness of hard political realism.”