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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Salman Rushdie
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Description for The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, dustwrapper with minor edge wear but remains good
At the beginning of this overwhelming novel, Vina Aspara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devasting 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. The story of a love that stretches across their whole lives, and even beyond death. 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, ... Read more
At the beginning of this overwhelming novel, Vina Aspara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devasting 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. The story of a love that stretches across their whole lives, and even beyond death. 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224044196
SKU
KKD0010513
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is the author of six previous novels - Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh - and one work of short stories entitled East, West. He has also published three works of non-ficition - The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz - and, as co-editor, ... Read more
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