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Victory City is framed as a fictional translation of an epic originally written in Sanskrit. [1] The focaliser and protagonist is Pampa Kampana, partly inspired by the historical, fourteenth-century princess-poet Gangadevi, who is given (or cursed with) a 247-year lifespan.
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie [47] Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick [48] Sixty Stories (1981) by Donald Barthelme [29] A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami [49] The Name of the Rose (1983) by Umberto Eco [49] Shame (1983) by Salman Rushdie [50] Money (1984) by Martin Amis [51] The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by ...
Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. This book was written out of a desire to approach the problem of "artificial" (other-made) country divisions, their residents' complicity, and the problems of post-colonialism when Pakistan was created to separate the Muslims from the Hindus after Britain gave up control of India.
Writing for The Guardian, Aminatta Forna said: "Rushdie puts his finger on the nationwide identity crisis in this novel of race, reinvention and the different bubbles of US life." [ 3 ] Reviewer Dwight Garner of The New York Times opined: " ' The Golden House' is a big novel, wide but shallow, so wide it has its own meteorology.
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So, another brave and dazzling fable from Salman Rushdie, one that meets the test of civic usefulness -- broadly conceived -- as certainly as it fulfills the requirements of true art." [ 2 ] On 5 November 2019 BBC Arts included The Moor's Last Sigh on its list of the 100 most influential novels .
The Free Radio - Examines government attempts during the State of Emergency to address high birth rates with sterilisation of poor men. The Prophet's Hair - A moneylender is driven mad after finding a stolen lock of the Prophet's hair. His family enlists an infamous burglar to steal it, in the hopes that the moneylender will regain his sanity ...