Shalimar the Clown (55 page)

About the Author

S
ALMAN
R
USHDIE
is the author of eight previous novels
—Grimus, Midnight’s Children
(for which he won the Booker Prize and the “Booker of Bookers”),
Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet,
and
Fury—
and one collection of short stories,
East, West.
He has also published five works of nonfiction:
The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz, Mirrorwork,
and
Step Across This Line.

Also by Salman Rushdie

FICTION

Grimus

Midnight’s Children

Shame

The Satanic Verses

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

East,
West

The Moor’s Last Sigh

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Fury

NONFICTION

The Jaguar Smile

Imaginary Homelands

Step Across This Line

PLAYS

Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(with Tim Supple and David Tushingham)

Midnight’s Children
(with Tim Supple and Simon Reade)

ANTHOLOGY

Mirrorwork
(co-editor)

This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2005 by Salman Rushdie

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

W. W. NORTON ' COMPANY, INC.:
Excerpts from “Farewell” from
The Country Without a Post Office
by Agha Shahid Ali, copyright © 1997 by Agha Shahid Ali. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

CYBERSPACE INMATES:
Excerpt from “Things Will Get Better” by Leon Bell and from “My Best Friend” by Dusty Ray Spencer. Both poems appeared on the Cyberspace Inmates website located at http://www.cyberspace-inmates.com. Reprinted by the kind permission of Cyberspace Inmates.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Rushdie, Salman.

Shalimar the clown: a novel / Salman Rushdie.

p. cm.

1.         Clowns—Fiction.                  2.         Revenge—Fiction.                  3.         Adultery—Fiction.                  4.         Ambassadors—Fiction.                  5.         Americans—India—Fiction.                  6.         Jammu and Kashmir (India)—Fiction.                  7.         Triangles (Interpersonal relations)—Fiction.                  I.         Title.

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