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082	1		_aFIC RUS _2
100	1		_aRushdie, Salman, 1947-
245	1	4	_aThe ground beneath her feet _c/ Salman Rushdie
260			_aNew York _b: Henry Holt and Company _c, 1999
300			_a578 p. _c; 24 cm
520			_aVina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale. Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aWomen singers _v--Fiction
650		4	_aComposers _v-Fiction
650		4	_aPopular music _x-Fiction
650		4	_aPhotographers _v--Fiction
651		4	_aNew York (N.Y.) _v--Fiction
651		4	_aEngland _v--Fiction
651		4	_aIndia _v--Fiction
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