About the Author
SALMAN RUSHDIE 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.
PR6068.U757S47 2005 823'.914—dc22 2005042796
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eISBN: 978-1-58836-484-5
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