Shame

The novel "Shame" is a kind of prologue to the famous "Satanic Verses," the book for which Salman Rushdie lived under the threat of death for many years and was forced to hide. In "Shame," there is both a mythological interpretation of reality and a reference to recent historical events. The author's imagination is unrestrained and unbridled, bubbling with epochs, events, fates, people, beasts, gods, and monsters. This book is an epic phantasmagoria where fairy tales, dark comedies, and high tragedies coexist.