- Shame (novel)
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name = Shame
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author =Salman Rushdie
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country =United Kingdom
language = English
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genre =Novel
publisher =Alfred A. Knopf 1st American ed
release_date = 12 October 1983
media_type = Print (Hardcover ,Paperback )
pages = 300 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-394-53408-5
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followed_by ="Shame" is
Salman Rushdie 's third novel, published in 1983. On the face of it, "Shame" is a novel aboutPakistan and about the people who ruled Pakistan. One of the main aims of the novel is to portray the lives ofZulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and their relationship. The more central theme is the violence that is born out of shame. There are characters that actually 'stand' for 'shame' and 'shamelessness' —Sufiya Zinobia andOmar Khayyám respectively.When one reads the novel carefully, though, the city being portrayed is an imaginary one, the city of Q. The author-narrator makes it clear in the second chapter of the novel that the city of Q is an imaginary representation of any country: "My view is that I am not writing only about Pakistan" (Rushdie, 29). "Shame" discusses heritage, authenticity, truth, and, of course, shame and shamelessness, as well as the impact of all these themes on an individual, the protagonist Omar Khayyám.
Rushdie wrote "Shame" after his "
Midnight's Children ", whose theme was the independence — and partition — ofIndia .It is recommendedFact|date=August 2007 that one reads Rushdie's article "
Imaginary Homelands " before reading any of his novels, for in this article the author explains the heart of all his works.Awards
*Shortlisted for the 1983
Booker Prize .
*The Persian translation received an award from an official jury appointed by a ministry of the Iranian Islamic government. [Daniel Pipes: The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West (1990), p.49]ee also
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Indian English literature
*Postcolonial literature Bibliography
Rushdie, Salman. "Shame". Vintage: London, 1995.
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