Salman Rushdie 
Shame [EPUB ebook] 

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is ‚;not quite Pakistan.‘ In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two menone a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation ‚;shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.‘ Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.From the Trade Paperback edition.