Showing The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie

Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 592 Publisher: Vintage At the beginning of the this stunning novel Vina Apsara a famous and much-loved singer is caught with their pants up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story. and that of Ormus Cama. the lover who finds. loses. seeks and again finds her. over and over. throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover. the photographer Rai. Around these three. the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and eak. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the faic of the real. This is Salman Rushdie's boldest imaginative act. a vision of our shaken. mutating times. an engament with the whole of what is and what might b e. and account of the intimate. flawed encounter between the East and the West. a illiant rem...