Book description
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 dumb-waiter) to face his shameless future. As captivating
fairy-tale, devastating political satire and exquisite, uproarious
entertainment,
Shame
is a novel without rival. Salman Rushdie is the author of ten 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.
