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"Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home of Kashmir. But fate has played him cruelly, torn him away from his beloved home and brought him to Los Angeles, where he works as a chauffeur. One morning he gets up, goes to work, and brutally slays his employer, America's former counter-terrorist chief Maximilian Ophuls, in full view of the victim's illegitimate daughter, India. Despite the political overtones, it soon emerges that this is a murder with a much darker heart to it.

The killing has its roots halfway across the globe, back in Kashmir, a ruined paradise not so much lost as shattered. And gradually it emerges that beyond this unholy trinity of Max, India and Shalimar, lurks a fourth, shadowy figure, one who binds them all together. "


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Well... I own a copy from all - or nearly all- Salman Rushdie's books and I tend to read them again and again every now and then. This is the 4rth or maybe 5th time I read Shalimar The Clown but still it managed to hold my attention and to transfer me on many different eras and areas...

This deeply political but also deeply human book, throught the personal stories of people touches the history of Kashmir but also the world of espionage, of terrorism, of international politics. There are human passions, mistakes and drama but also the sense and involvement of some suppernatural elements, this so beknown and beloved magic realism of the author that makes everything surreal and reasonable simultaneously.

This book has a somehow slow start, from Los Angeles in the '80s, but later moves to Strasbourg, to Philippines, Pakistan, India and of course to Kashmir on a tangent of many decades and the author ties everything in.
I would have liked Rushdie to focus a bit more on the procedure of some characters' change, but anyhow the novel was engaging and well-written and manages to narrate indirectly or less indirectly the tragic history of Kashmir and of other, smaller or larger dramas of global history.

There is lots of food for thought in this book, which other than an interesting story is a great anatomy of human soul and of international nasty political scene (or rather backstage!)

I know that some people detest Shalman Rushdie. The rest of you, you should read Shalimar the Clown!

PS: This is a copy I purchased for BookCrossing purposes.

Shalimar The Clown got itchy feet and is travelling across Europe to meet the winner of the last 1rst Name Sweeps round.

Good Luck and Don't forget to write your news from time to time : )

Thank you sooo much for your parcel, with this novel and a much appreciated WishList book. You have been brilliant! :)

Sent to Icila as one of my replacements for the Occupational Bookring.

I'm going to keep this one. A bit of a challenge. Many registered but few had been really read.

A masterpiece. Thank you Delphi_Reader to put it on the road and bookworm-Lady to send it my way.

My September offer for greenbadger's "One book a month offer 2020"

On its way to Askeladda in Norway. Enjoy !

This is great! Thank you so much for picking me the winner of this book! Rushdie is a great storyteller, I have read several of his novels, but not this one! Im so much looking forward to read it! Thank you for sharing and sending, Icila!