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| Title | : | The Ground Beneath Her Feet |
| Author | : | Salman Rushdie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 576 pages |
| Published | : | March 16th 2000 by Picador (first published April 1999) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Magical Realism. Cultural. India |
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Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece. At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught 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, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale. Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's most gripping novel and his boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be, an account of the intimate, flawed encounter between the East and the West, a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy, high (and low) passions, high (and low) culture. It is a tale of love, death, and rock 'n' roll.
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| Original Title: | The Ground Beneath Her Feet |
| ISBN: | 0312254997 (ISBN13: 9780312254995) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2000) |
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Ratings: 3.79 From 10641 Users | 596 ReviewsWeigh Up Of Books The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Absolute favourite. The man weaves a tale like no other. <3A reimagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in the modern world of rock & roll. There are many cultural references, but often twisted in interesting ways. Famous people appear, but in different roles than readers expect. I found this the most fun aspect of the book--wondering how many of the jokes I actually got.Ormus Cama is a brilliant musician born in Bombay, India. The love of his life is Vina Apsara, a half-Indian woman who moves to Bombay when she is a young adolescent. The two
A strange and abounding novel, which plunges us into the destiny of an imaginary rock band, whose two leaders, united and torn by a love story, gradually change the face of the world.The story is mainly due to the fantastic pinch which the author has sprinkled, the group's inspirer being in contact with a mysterious parallel dimension that gradually invades the narrative.In the end, a book that is worth the detour, especially for what you learn about India, but not always easy, especially in the
4.5 starsThis was exceptionally well done. A+ for plan and execution Mr. Rushdie. Reading Salman Rushdie makes me want to take an advanced mythology class. He really uses it well. According to Wiki, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth with rock music replacing Orpheus' lyre. The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to which he attaches an endless series of references. I feel like I maybe got half the references. Thanks to my recent read of The Sandman
Orpheus and Eurydice as rock stars. Epic tale of music 'n' love.And the deification of genius. Also, highlights celebrity's recent secularisation. How today's stars function for community instead of idolatry. "the point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life."
I think Rushdie can be a bit daunting sometimes because he's really an intellectual through and through. He fills his writing with countless references to mythology and history in a way that I find rewarding but some may find difficult. Rushdie creates the story of a band and music that grows to epic proportions. We follow the story of Rai, a photographer who falls precariously in love with Vina in India while still very much a boy. He basically devotes his whole life to Vina and the language is
Reading 'The Ground Beneath her Feet' is yet another proof of Rushidie's literary genius. It is no wonder that he is one of the most prolific writers of our time. Magic is the word that sums up his literary universe.
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