Clown Shalimar

Like most of Salman Rushdie's novels, this book is a story of love, found and lost, extremely beautiful, tragic and deadly. The magical prose of a wonderful master moves the reader through time and space with magical ease, which, as if on a roller coaster, takes the breath away. At the same time, it is a story about the brutal hatred fueled by divisions between cultures, countries, religions, and even individual families, about the roots of Islamic terrorism, and about how power and politics destroy the boundaries between good and evil. "Shalimar the Clown" is a powerful, full of unique characters, an extremely vivid book that is simply impossible to read with a calm heart.