Book description
Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a
devastating earthquake and never seen again. This is her story, and that
of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks and again finds her,
over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Set in
the inspiring, vain, fabulous world of rock'n'roll, this is the story of
a love that stretches across continents, across Vina and Ormus's whole
lives, and even beyond death. Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven
novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and
the co-editor of
The Vintage Book of Indian Writing
. In 1993 Midnight's Children
was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the
Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor's Last Sigh
won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion
Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
