num_pages: 320
description: The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses , Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men—one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure—Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation —“shamelessness, the roots of violence.” Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.
language: English
title: Shame
titlecomplete: Shame
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Indian Literature, Asia, India, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Pakistan
ratings_count: 12103
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: Vintage Canada