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Title: The Ground Beneath Her Feet : A Novel by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0-312-25499-7 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 16 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (104 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Its rock and roll baby!
Comment: Salman Rushdie writes yet another literary extravaganza, full of word plays, symponies of metaphors and a very interesting tale of love, music and twentieth century world. Recommended to anyone who has apetite for heavy reading, for in Rushdie's writing you need to savor the story frame by frame, page by page, sentence by sentence. Complexity is integral to this novel as well, but for someone who has read Midnight Children, Moors Last Sigh and/or Satanic Verses, this book presents a very interesting and simpler read: for its a typical Rushdie novel, with all the drama and absurdities of rock and roll and a very fine love story! Characteristic Rushdie wit keeps you humored, and density of work occupied!!!!
PS: Never read Rushdie if you fancy reading 100 page novels in a hours time!!! Reading Rushdie is an effort, but trust me, a worthwhile one!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great, as Always
Comment: Rushdie delivers a perplexing and interesting novel, as ever. I'm not even going to try to explain the plot. I suggest taking a class on Rushdie- his books go that deep. I have enjoyed everything that I have read so far. This is a great novel, whether you are reading it for school or just for fun.
Rating: 3
Summary: Transitional Rushdie?
Comment: "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" is devoted to the stories of the pop stars Ormus Cama and Vina Apsara as told by Umeed Merchant ("Rai"), their mutual friend and Ormus's rival for Vina's affections. Rai narrates Ormus and Vina's meeting in Bombay, their rise to fame in 1960s London, and eventual cult status after moving to the USA.
There's much in this novel that will appear familiar to anyone who has read Rushdie's other works: the themes of East meets West ("disorientation meaning loss of the East"); and the exploration of popular "culture", for example.
"The Ground Beneath Her Feet" felt to me very much what it is - the novel which came between "The Moor's Last Sigh" and "Fury". It could be seen as a transitional novel - Rushdie still deals with the interconnections and tensions between Eastern and Western cultural traditions, but is already turning his attention to what he sees as the shallowness of modern Western "culture". In this novel, he is damning of the cult status given to dead pop stars: traces of the all-sweeping pessimism and condemnatory style used later in "Fury".
I thought that "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" was a more accessible novel than "The Moor's Last Sigh", which I felt to be too self-indulgent. That perhaps is due to the possibility that I'm becoming accustomed to Rushdie's writing style, which to use a metaphor is the equivalent to being taken on a long train journey, but getting off at many of the stations on the way to have a slow wander around. Thus does Rushdie abandon temporarily his narrative to indulge his random thoughts and explore word play. I suppose this can be greatly appealing to some readers, but I confess that it taxes my patience.
On the plus side, Rushdie at least to some extent succeeded for me in giving an impression of the changes in environment in the novel: 1950s Bombay; "swinging London" of the 1960s; and market-obsessed 1980s and 1990s USA. Watch out as the spelling changes to American-English as the scene shifts to the States (or was that bad editing?).
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Title: The Satanic Verses : A Novel by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0312270828 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0679744665 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Shame : A Novel by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0312270933 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0140132708 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Fury : A Novel by Salman Rushdie ISBN: 0679783504 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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