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...Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie...
...those stick villains. In addition to Syriana and Sleeper Cell, there's The War Within, a film about a plan to blow up New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and Paradise Now, about Palestinian suicide bombers. Salman Rushdie has taken up the subject in his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown...
...pages that comprise Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, “Shalimar the Clown,” he carries us spellbound from Hinduism to Nazism, Krishna to Allah, and Kashmir to California. Along the way, he examines and shatters traditional notions of love, vengeance, nationalism, seduction, and betrayal. By the end of this journey, Rushdie forces readers to realize that when all masks and motives are stripped away, there are no winners and losers, only interconnected individuals with a present to be lived and a past to be learned and retold. Throughout, Rushdie uses a subtle, potent...
...Shalimar the Clown
...This is fury, the vintage Rushdie kind, not the phony outrage at the shallowness of the Western world that sank Fury, but a wrath aimed in the opposite direction?at the medieval barbarism that lingers in our only half-modern world. Shalimar, weak and improbable whenever its action leaves Kashmir, is not of the caliber of Midnight's Children, but it does mark Rushdie's re-engagement with the themes of political injustice and religious bigotry?themes that have made him one of our most important living novelists. The good news for his fans is that, once again, Rushdie knows...