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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100805053085
ISBN-139780805053081
eBay Product ID (ePID)910651
Product Key Features
Book TitleGround Beneath Her Feet
Number of Pages592 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicRomance / Contemporary, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorSalman Rushdie
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.8 in
Item Weight32.9 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-042407
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal823.914
SynopsisSalman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece. At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale. Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's most gripping novel and his boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be, an account of the intimate, flawed encounter between the East and the West, a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy, high (and low) passions, high (and low) culture. It is a tale of love, death, and rock 'n' roll.
LC Classification NumberPR6068.U757G76 1999
