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Book SynopsisSalman Rushdie is the author of sixteen novels, including
Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker),
The Satanic Verses, and
Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
Trade ReviewIt is an astute, gleeful, political tale in which Rushdie dazzles with his prodigious gift for satire. * Guardian *
Salman Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great story tellers * Observer *
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
* Sunday Telegraph *
Shame is every bit as good as
Midnight's Children. It is a pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives * The Times *
Salman Rushdie is a magnificent writer. He has a free-ranging imagination and a coarse, strong wit. He attackes language with energy and without constraint * Independent *
