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050	0	0	_aPR6068.U757 _bS47 2005
082	1		_aFIC RUS _2
100	1		_aRushdie, Salman, 1947-
245	1	0	_aShalimar the Clown : _ba novel _c/ Salman Rushdie
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Random House _c, c2005
300			_a398 p. _c; 25 cm.
520	3		_aShalimar the Clown is a novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story. Max Ophuls' memorablelife ends violently in Los Angeles in 1993 when he is murdered by his Muslim driver Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar the Clown. At first the crime seems to be politically motivated - Ophuls was previously ambassador to India, and later US counterterrorism chief - but it is much more. Ophuls is a giant, an architect of the modern world: a Resistance hero and best-selling author, brilliant economist and clandestine US intelligence official. But it is as Ambassador to India that the seeds of his demise are planted, thanks to another of his great roles - irresistible lover. Shalimar the Clown is a work of the era of globalization, intricately mingling lives and countries, and finding unexpected and sometimes tragic connections between the seemingly disparate. Shalimar the Clown is steeped in both the Hindu epic Ramayana and the great European novelists, melding the storytelling traditions of east and west into a magnificently fruitful blend - and serves, itself, as a corrective to the destructive clashes of values it scorchingly depicts.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aClowns _vFiction
650		4	_aRevenge -- _vFiction
650		4	_aAdultery -- _vFiction
650		4	_aAmbassadors _v--Fiction
650		4	_aAmericans _z-India _v--Fiction
650		4	_aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) _v--Fiction
651		4	_a Jammu and Kashmir (India) _v--Fiction
655		4	_aPsychological fiction
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