Word: shamed
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Several hours later, Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine informed Parliament of the missiles arrival, shouting to make himself heard above opposition lawmakers who screamed "shame! shame...
BAYEDOES A SUPERB JOE as the victim coming across as infinitely fragile rather than unrelentingly wimpy--it is a time enough line. Emphasizing Helene's shame and reluctance at the situation, Baye makes her character seem almost innocent despite the deception she perpetrates. Every time she is forced to tell a lie or a half-truth, she just kind of chokes, and at times you cannot help wishing she would just make up her mind. As the emotional bonds that form between Helene and the in-laws grow stronger, however. Helene's dilemma becomes increasingly difficult to solve...
...bloody civil war that led to the transformation of East Pakistan into independent Bangladesh in 1971 is mirrored here: "The final defeat of the western forces, which led to the reconstitution of the East Wing nation as and an international autonomous basket (that's a case ..." laugh) But Shame is not a point-for-point alle gory of reasonably recent events...
Other characters display unusual gifts. One woman bears a mathematical progression of children on the same date of each succeeding year (first twins, then triplets, etc.). There is a brain-damaged girl who psychically absorbs the shame that others should but do not feel until she becomes a ravening albino panther, be heading animals and humans alike. These surreal people do not simply stand for such concepts as overpopulation or guilt; they also take their places in what the au thor calls "the infinitely rich and cryptic texture of human life...
...political candor ("May I interpose a few words here on the subject of the Islamic revival?"). But his literary accomplishments are uniquely his own. A Westerner by adoption and choice, looking back on a country where he would assuredly be silenced if he tried to write a book like Shame, Rushdie has produced an imaginative tour of obliquities and iniquities. - By Paul Gray