Shame /
Rushdie, Salman.
London : Vintage,
1995.
Originally published: London : Cape, 1983.
Contents: Escapes from the mother country: The dumb-waiter. A necklace of shoes. Melting ice. -- The duellists: Behind the screen. The wrong miracle. Affairs of honour -- Shame, good news and the virgin: Blushing. Beauty and the beast -- In the fifteenth century: Alexander the Great. The woman in the veil. Monologue of a hanged man. Stability -- Judgement day.
Political fiction.