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...career of A.N. Wilson. He is one of a fairly rare literary species: a writer of social comedies. He is also prolific-Wise Virgin, his first book to be published in this country, is his sixth novel-and very good. Not for him the extravagant mythmaking of his contemporary Salman Rushdie or the chilly experiments of Ian McEwan. Stylistically, Wilson is headed straight into the past, when a novelist told a suspenseful story and commanded his characters' souls. He can be flippant and overly mordant, but his lively wit and fine sense of morals and manners mark...
...SHAME by Salman Rushdie; Knopf; 319 pages; $13.95 "After Sufiya Zinobia recovered from the immunological catastrophe that followed the turkey massacre ..." Coming upon a sentence that opens like this can make readers of the novel in which it appears begin to wonder what is on the tube tonight. They might also find themselves talking back to the novelist...
Indian-born Author Salman Rushdie, 36, puts up. Those unfortunate gobblers are not the only fanciful creatures in Shame, his third novel. The book is crammed with the grotesque and improbable. Many pages are devoted to introducing the hero, Omar Khayyam Shakil, and the three sisters who all claim to be his mother. Then he grows fat and disappears from the scene for long stretches. "I am a peripheral man," he announces near the end. "Other persons have been the principal actors in my life story...
...from the Sudairi tribe. There had been talk that Abdullah might be passed over in favor of Prince Sultan, also a Sudairi. The power of the Sudairi brothers within the Saudi hierarchy is substantial: in addition to Fahd and Sultan, they include Prince Naif, Minister of the Interior; Prince Salman, governor of Riyadh; and Prince Ahmed, deputy governor of Mecca. By strictly respecting the line of succession, the elders avoided the dangers of a family breach and ensured a judicious balance of personalities j ^ ^ and powers at the top of the government. In effect, diplomats say, the Khalid-Fahd "duarchy...
...able, energetic Fahd, even though Khalid was Crown Prince. In addition to his proven skills, Fahd was one of the "Sudairi Seven"-seven brothers born to Abdul Aziz by one of his favorite wives. (Among the other powerful Sudairis: Prince Sultan, the present Minister of Defense; Prince Salman, the governor of Riyadh; Prince Naif, Minister of the Interior...