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The place is Los Angeles 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal a former United States ambassador to India and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. This is the story of Max his killer and his daughter - and of a fourth character the woman who links them all. The story of a deep love gone fatally wrong destroyed by a shallow affair it is an epic narrative that moves from California to France England and above all Kashmir: a ruined paradise not so much lost as smashed.
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Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home of Kashmir. But fate has played him cruelly, torn him away from his beloved home and brought him to Los Angeles, where he works as a chauffeur. One morning he gets up, goes to work, and kills his employer, America's former counter-terrorist chief Maximilian Ophuls, in view of the victim's illegitimate daughter, India. The killing has its roots halfway across the globe, back in Kashmir, a ruined paradise not so much lost as shattered. And gradually it emerges that beyond this unholy trinity of Max, India and Shalimar, lurks a fourth, shadowy figure, one who binds them all together.
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Shalimar the Clown : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099421887 : 0099421887 : 28 Jun 2011 : Despite the political overtones, it soon emerges that this is a murder with a much darker heart to it. The killing has its roots halfway across the globe, back in Kashmir, a ruined paradise not so much lost as shattered.
- 0099421887
- 9780099421887
- Salman Rushdie
- 5 October 2006
- Vintage
- Paperback (Book)
- 416
- New edition
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