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Monday, November 7th

Random House

Price: $25.95

SALMAN RUSHDIE discusses his novel Shalimar the Clown with Professor Homi K. Bhabha

Harvard Book Store is thrilled to announce that on Monday, November 7th famed novelist Salman Rushdie will be in conversation with Professor Homi K. Bhabha about his new novel Shalimar the Clown.

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From one of the leading literary figures of our time, a gripping international tale of love and revenge, and the ancient and modern conflicts from which they spring.

Here’s what the critics are saying about Shalimar the Clown:

“Rushdie has written an intensely political novel, infused with recent events, but its emotional scope reaches so far beyond our current crisis and its vision into the vagaries of the heart is so perceptive that one can imagine Shalimar the Clown being read long after this age of sacred terror has faded into history.”—The Washington Post

“Evoking a novella by Gabriel Garcia Márquez or a movie by Quentin Tarantino or a tragedy, say, by Shakespeare, Shalimar the Clown is a chronicle of an assassination foretold. . . . Rushdie defies gravity and dispatches his characters on journeys leading up to the assassination, leading away from the assassination, entertaining and dazzling, but all the while guiding us on an examination of this precarious high wire we find ourselves walking in the 21st century. . . . Rushdie’s greatest novel since The Satanic Verses.” —Los Angeles Times

“Shalimar the Clown . . . finds [Rushdie] working once again at the top of his powers. The book deftly mixes dark comedy with high politics, sex and war and terror, romance and mythology. . . .[A] geopolitical love story with gusto and excitement.” —Chicago Tribune

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Salman Rushdie is the author of nine previous novels: Grimus; Midnight’s Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and, in 1993, was judged to be the “Booker of Bookers,” the best novel to have won that prize in its first twenty-five years); Shame (winner of the French Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger); The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel); Haroun and the Sea of Stories (winner of the Writers Guild Award); The Moor’s Last Sigh (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel); The Ground Beneath Her Feet (winner of the Eurasian section of the Commonwealth Prize); Fury (a New York Times Notable Book); and Shalimar the Clown (a Time Book of the Year). He is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and three works of nonfiction–Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and The Wizard of Oz. Mr. Rushdie is also the co-editor of Mirrorwork, an anthology of contemporary Indian writing.

Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan / PEN American Center