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. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. 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.
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. Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece.Īt 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.
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