Shalimar the Clown
4.4
66 Ratings & 7 Reviews
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Shalimar the Clown Reviews
4.4
66 Ratings &
7 Reviews
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An excellent read

This was my first book from Rushdie. I had heard so many horror stories about his writing style and also about the fact his writing is fairly incomprehensible. He does use fairly long sentences in his writing but I absolutely loved this book. While the plot itself is like a Bollywood movie, I felt the writing style is brilliant
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Karthik Jagirdhar

Oct, 2011

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Very well written

Salman Rushdie is the great Indian dreamweaver according to me. His words put spells in your ears and create beautiful dreams on paper.

This story was very realistic, and shows the writers ability to do wholesome research on two completely different backgrounds and spin them into one interesting tale.

The book gives a very apt view of the Kashmir situation and the mindset of a terrorist... even though he may choose that path for a personal grudge. It also gives a breathtaking synopsis of t...
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Shalini Maiti

Aug, 2012

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Interesting read

Shalimar the clown is as magically fascinating as Rushdie's other works. A captivating study of the Kashmiri unstability, the culture, the extremes of radical Islam, the novel is both heart breakingly beautiful and devastatingly violent in equal measures.
Rushdie has spun a mesmerizing tale centered in Kashmir but stretching into the world. The book is political, historical, a folk tale, funny, adventurous, exotic. In shimmering (if sometimes baroque) language, Rushdie invokes clever satire a...
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Sanyogita

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Feb, 2012

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A love story and a lost paradice

A story which starts with a natural, if somewhat clichéd way, takes you through heart-break, an American ambassador and the family, culminating in the murder of the ambassador by a man, who at one time was a trapeze player, and all this in the backdrop of Kashmir, that "Paradise on Earth", interspersed with knavery and rapscallions, a concinnity of human emotions are what makes this story one of the best novel of contemporary literature.
The story starts with the murder of Maximillan Ophuls,...
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Dr.Soumya Saha

Certified Buyer, Berhampore

Feb, 2015

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5

Mind-blowing purchase

Item as described, delivered on time, over all great purchase.
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Protap Kumar Choudhury

Certified Buyer, Serampore

Jun, 2023

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Worth every penny

Very nice book
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Raja Das

Certified Buyer, Kolkata

May, 2023

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Sir Rushdie at his best

An amazing story with the plot based in Kashmir Europe and America. I personally liked an instance where the author has taken head on the matter of Kashmir being an integral part of India.
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Akash Anupam

Certified Buyer, Patna

Aug, 2016

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