Salman Rushdie. “Shalimar the Clown”. Jonathan Cape, 2005. 398 pages. Hardcover with dust cover, in excellent condition.
Beginning in Los Angeles, 1991, Maximilian Ophulsm is murdered outside his illigitmeate daughters house. Lives are uprooted, names keep changing-nothing is permanent yet everything is connected. Spanning the globe and darting through history, Salman Rushdie’s majestic narrative captures the heart of the reader and the spirit of a troubled age.