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The Ground Beneath Her Feet

by Salman Rushdie
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Myth-infused love epic in a musical odyssey.

If you revel in tales that blend the mythic with the modern, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" might strike a chord with you. Salman Rushdie masterfully weaves a narrative that dances through time and across continents, with a lyricism that echoes the music central to its characters' lives. The interplay between love and loss, set against a backdrop of seismic cultural shifts, ensures that every page resonates with a haunting melody of its own.

  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2000)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet

by Salman Rushdie
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ISBN: 9780312254995
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2000-03-16
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Fantasy, Romance, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Mythology, Magical Realism, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.8
(rated by 12113 readers)

Description

Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece. At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale. Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's most gripping novel and his boldest imaginative act, a vision of
 

Myth-infused love epic in a musical odyssey.

If you revel in tales that blend the mythic with the modern, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" might strike a chord with you. Salman Rushdie masterfully weaves a narrative that dances through time and across continents, with a lyricism that echoes the music central to its characters' lives. The interplay between love and loss, set against a backdrop of seismic cultural shifts, ensures that every page resonates with a haunting melody of its own.

  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2000)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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