Shame (novel)
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| Author(s) | Salman Rushdie |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
| Publication date | 08 September 1983 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 287 |
| ISBN | 978-0-224-02952-0 |
| OCLC Number | 9646560 |
| Dewey Decimal | 823 19 |
| LC Classification | PR6068.U757 S5 1983 |
Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. Like most of Rushdie's work, this book was written in the style of magic realism. Shame is a novel about Pakistan and about the people who ruled Pakistan. One of its main aims is to portray the lives of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and their relationship. The more central theme is the violence that is born out of shame. There are characters that 'stand' for 'shame' and 'shamelessness' — Sufiya Zinobia and Omar Khayyám respectively.
Yet the city being portrayed is an imaginary one, the city of Q. The author-narrator makes it clear in the second chapter of the novel that the city of Q is an imaginary representation of any country: "My view is that I am not writing only about Pakistan" (Rushdie, 29). Shame discusses heritage, authenticity, truth, and, of course, shame and shamelessness, as well as the impact of all these themes on an individual, the protagonist Omar Khayyám.
Rushdie wrote Shame after his Midnight's Children, whose theme was the independence — and partition — of India.
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[edit] Awards
- Winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize).[1]
- Shortlisted for the 1983 Booker Prize.
- The Persian translation received an award from an official jury appointed by a ministry of the Iranian Islamic government.[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] Bibliography
Rushdie, Salman. Shame. Vintage: London, 1995.
[edit] References
- ^ PORTRAIT SALMAN RUSHDIE - Actualité Celebre - EVENE
- ^ Daniel Pipes: The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West (1990), p.49
[edit] External links
- Listen to Salman Rushdie discussing Shame with Tariq Ali - a British Library recording.
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