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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Shalimar the Clown
• Author: Salman Rushdie
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780099421887
• ISBN: 0099421887
• ID: 04016270
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 294 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. October 2006

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