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Shame

a Novel
Nov 22, 2013lukasevansherman rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Salman Rushdie's third novel is a transition between his most famous ("Midnight's Children") and his most infamous ("The Satanic Verses"). I like Rushdie, but once you're read the towering "Midnight's Children," you may find yourself fruitlessly looking for another novel as good. This offers up the familiar curry of politics, religion, family drama, storytelling, meta-narrative, comedy and culture clashes. With respect to the other commentator, I don't think he knocks out Marquez or murders Dostoyevsky.