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The Ground Beneath Her Feet

A Novel

By Salman Rushdie

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| Paperback | 9780312254995

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In this remaking of the myth of Orpheus, Rushdie tells the story of Vina Apsara, a pop star, and Ormus Cama, an extraordinary songwriter and musician, who captivate and change the world through their music and their romance. Beginning in Bombay in the fifties, moving to London in the sixties, and NeContinue

In this remaking of the myth of Orpheus, Rushdie tells the story of Vina Apsara, a pop star, and Ormus Cama, an extraordinary songwriter and musician, who captivate and change the world through their music and their romance. Beginning in Bombay in the fifties, moving to London in the sixties, and New York for the last quarter century, the novel pulsates with a half-century of music and celebrates the power of rock 'n' roll.

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  • The Ground Beneath Her Feet

    The world-famous rock star Ormus Cama has a song that goes: 'It's not supposed to be this way/but you're not here to put it right/And you're not here to hold me tight/It shouldn't be this way.' All through The Ground Beneath Her Feet, part rock-opera ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Child of the gods

    Goethe may first have spoken, in the afternoon of the millennium, of 'world-literature,' but its existence is quite recent; it was born with modernism, and now flourishes darkly in an age of postmodernism. When writers became exiles or emigres, when ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • I absolutely adored this book the first time around, and compared it to chocolate, because the language was so yummy!

    When I read it a second time, as part of our book club, it was not quite as delicious - I don't know why.

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