Salman Rushdie loses his cheerfulness: geopolitics, terrorism and adultery.(Shalimar the Clown)(Book review)

Journal of International Affairs | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie (New York City: Random House, 2005), 416 pages.

In Shalimar the Clown, a novel of love, betrayal and the agonizing struggle over the contested Himalayan region of Kashmir, Salman Rushdie reveals a deep thread of pessimism--perhaps even despair--that is new to his work. This is no small thing for a writer whose comic talents run as deep as Rushdie's, and perhaps is intended to serve as a kind of a warning, a canary song about the age of jihad. I say new advisedly; even though this novel appeared in 2005, its concerns remain very much ...

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