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Presents the story of the Shah of Blah, a successful, professional storyteller who loses his ability to tell stories and must enlist the help of his son, Haroun, to restore his special talent.
The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is "not quite Pakistan." In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two...
An average mother of two working in investigation fraud gets drawn into a shady and eccentric underworld after looking into the finances of a billionaire computer geek.
Quite unexpectedly, Mrs. Oedipa Maas finds herself the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man she used to know in a more-or-less intimate fashion. Oedipa leaves her home and her husband and heads to Southern California to sort through...
Profiles two Nobel Prize-winning Latin American novelists, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, who were friends and rivals, and examines the "boom" period in Latin American literature in which they played leading roles.