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Shame

Shame
Salman Rushdie

Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. This book was written out of a desire to approach the problem of "artificial" country divisions, their residents' complicity, and the problems of post-colonialism, when Pakistan was created to separate the Muslims from the Hindus, when England gave up control of "India"...

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“Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.”

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“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”

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“Realism can break a writer's heart.”

Salman Rushdie Shame

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