Shalimar the clown6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The story of a deep love gone fatally wrong, destroyed by a shallow affair, it is an epic narrative that moves from California to France, England, and above all, Kashmir. This is the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter and of a fourth character, the woman who links them, whose story explains them all. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter terrorism chief. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front jacket, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£17.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. ![]() SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Gordon and Nikki, Salman Rushdie'. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '4 6 8 10 9 7 5'. ![]()
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