![]() But if you can ignore the geopolitics-as-love-triangle, read Shalimar the Clown for the effervescent fun factor that is always present in Rushdie's work (.), and for its devastating portrait of the destruction of Kashmir." - Annabel Lyon, The Globe and Mail "In the end, there's something a little too neatly schematic about this novel: Muslim man murders Jewish man over Hindu woman. ![]() Rather, as the movie people describe such segments, it is back story." - Erik Spanberg, Christian Science Monitor ![]() "(A) devastating if at times heavy-handed examination of a doomed love and doomed region.Gone is the time when anywhere was exotic or magical or mythical, or even remote." - Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly No more Shangri-las, if it comes to that. (.) Rather than seek anything as trite as a "message", I should guess that Rushdie is telling us: No more Macondos. It is not necessary to assimilate all the details of the conflict in Kashmir in order to read it. ![]() "This is a highly serious novel, on an extremely serious subject, by a deeply serious man.Not quite a consensus, but many quite impressed General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī : many fine ideas and parts, but doesn't quite work as a whole Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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