Shame — Salman Rushdie

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 menone a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasureRushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence. Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day. From the Trade Paperback edition.