Shame

The New York Times Book Review, Robert Towers

Shame is a lively, amusing and exasperating work.... What he invents, with enormous gusto, is "a sort of modern fairy tale".... I found Mr. Rushdie's style a source of delight, a bright stream of words that lifted me happily past the most threatening snags and whirlpools of this impossible tale. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Sunday Telegraph

There can seldom have been so robust and baroque an incarnation of the political novel as Shame. It can be read as a fable, polemic or excoriation; as history or as fiction.... This is the novel as myth and as satire. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.