Shalimar the Clown
Subtitle: a novel
By: Salman Rushdie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House; Random Large Print
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Clowns -- Fiction.; Revenge -- Fiction.; Adultery -- Fiction.; Ambassadors -- Fiction.; Americans -- India -- Fiction.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.; Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1991, Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls--ex-ambassador to India, and America's counterterrorism chief--is murdered on the Los Angeles doorstep of his illegitimate daughter's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, who calls himself Shalimar the Clown.