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Copyright � 1983 by Salman Rushdie. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address: Picador USA, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y 10010.
Picador� is a U.S. registered trademark and is used by Henry Holt and Company under license from Pan Books Limited.
For information on Picador U...SA Reading Group Guides, as well as ordering, please contact the Trade Marketing department at St. Martin's Press.
Phone: 1-800-221-7945 extension 763 Fax:212-677-7456 E-mail: [email protected] Design by Kathryn Parise Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rushdie, Salman.
Shame: a novel / Salman Rushdie.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-27093-3 I. Title.
PR6068.U757S5 823'.914�dc21 97-5633 CIP First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd.
First published in the United States by Knopf First Picador USA Edition: December 2000 10 987654321 For Sameen CONTENTS I Escapes from the Mother Country 1 Chapter One The Dumb-Waiter 3 Chapter Two A Necklace of Shoes 19 Chapter Three Melting Ice 39 II The Duellists 53 Chapter Four Behind the Screen 55 Chapter Five The Wrong Miracle 69 Chapter Six Affairs of Honour 90 III Shame, Good News and the Virgin 115 Chapter Seven Blushing 117 Chapter Eight Beauty and the Beast 151 IV In the Fifteenth Century 183 Chapter Nine Alexander the Great 185 Chapter Ten The Woman in the Veil 207 Chapter Eleven Monologue of a Hanged Man 233 Chapter Twelve Stability 254 V Judgment Day 281 Acknowledgments 307 I Escapes from the Mother Country Hafeezullah Shakil Old Mr Shakil Chhunni, Munnee, and Bunny Shakil (the "three mothers") Rumi Shakil Bariamma 2 sisters I 3 brothers-------- I 11 legitimate sons (many illegitimate offspring) 1 daughter 32 boys Mahmoud "the Woman' I Sir Mir Harappa brother Kaza Hyder = Bilquis Rani Humayun = Iskander Harappa Little Mir Harappa Babar Shakil Omar Khayyam Shakil Sufiya Zinobia Naveed = Talvar Arjumand Harappa Hyder Hyder Ulhaq (the "virgin Ironpants") Haroun ("Good News") Harappa 27 children 1 The Dumb-Waiter In the remote border town of Q., which when seen from the air resembles nothing so much as an ill-proportioned dumb-bell, there once lived three lovely, and loving, sisters.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Copyright � 1983 by Salman Rushdie. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address: Picador USA, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y 10010.
Picador� is a U.S. registered trademark and is used by Henry Holt and Company under license from Pan Books Limited.
For information on Picador U...SA Reading Group Guides, as well as ordering, please contact the Trade Marketing department at St. Martin's Press.
Phone: 1-800-221-7945 extension 763 Fax:212-677-7456 E-mail: [email protected] Design by Kathryn Parise Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rushdie, Salman.
Shame: a novel / Salman Rushdie.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-27093-3 I. Title.
PR6068.U757S5 823'.914�dc21 97-5633 CIP First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd.
First published in the United States by Knopf First Picador USA Edition: December 2000 10 987654321 For Sameen CONTENTS I Escapes from the Mother Country 1 Chapter One The Dumb-Waiter 3 Chapter Two A Necklace of Shoes 19 Chapter Three Melting Ice 39 II The Duellists 53 Chapter Four Behind the Screen 55 Chapter Five The Wrong Miracle 69 Chapter Six Affairs of Honour 90 III Shame, Good News and the Virgin 115 Chapter Seven Blushing 117 Chapter Eight Beauty and the Beast 151 IV In the Fifteenth Century 183 Chapter Nine Alexander the Great 185 Chapter Ten The Woman in the Veil 207 Chapter Eleven Monologue of a Hanged Man 233 Chapter Twelve Stability 254 V Judgment Day 281 Acknowledgments 307 I Escapes from the Mother Country Hafeezullah Shakil Old Mr Shakil Chhunni, Munnee, and Bunny Shakil (the "three mothers") Rumi Shakil Bariamma 2 sisters I 3 brothers-------- I 11 legitimate sons (many illegitimate offspring) 1 daughter 32 boys Mahmoud "the Woman' I Sir Mir Harappa brother Kaza Hyder = Bilquis Rani Humayun = Iskander Harappa Little Mir Harappa Babar Shakil Omar Khayyam Shakil Sufiya Zinobia Naveed = Talvar Arjumand Harappa Hyder Hyder Ulhaq (the "virgin Ironpants") Haroun ("Good News") Harappa 27 children 1 The Dumb-Waiter In the remote border town of Q., which when seen from the air resembles nothing so much as an ill-proportioned dumb-bell, there once lived three lovely, and loving, sisters.
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