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Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal.
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Shalimar The Clown, Salman Rushdie
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- Released
- 2003
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- Title
- Shalimar The Clown
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Salman Rushdie
- Publisher
- Random House Digital, Inc.
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0812976983
- ISBN13
- 9780812976984
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Religious Topics, Contemporary Fiction, Love, Family, USA, Literary Fiction, English Literature, India, Culture, Revenge, Magical Realism, Desire, Hope, Terrorism, Hatred, Dance, Cruelty, Terror, Pakistan
- First published
- 2005
- Original title
- Shalimar the Clown
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal.