{"product_id":"shame-by-salman-rushdie","title":"'Shame' by Salman Rushdie","description":"\u003ch4\u003eA grotesque, feverish political fable from Salman Rushdie, \u003cem\u003eShame\u003c\/em\u003e turns the history of Pakistan into something unstable, comic and brutal.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFamilies rise and rot, tyrants perform morality, private disgrace becomes public myth, and the whole thing moves with Rushdie’s usual excess: satire, allegory, gossip, history, and fable all shoved into the same overheated room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is one of Rushdie’s sharper political novels: less sprawling than \u003cem\u003eMidnight’s Children\u003c\/em\u003e, but similarly concerned with the way nations invent themselves through violence, humiliation and convenient lies. A good one for readers interested in postcolonial fiction, political satire, magical realism and the ugly theatre of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst Picador paperback edition. Good condition with general age and shelf wear.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45725706354771,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-22T191107.715.png?v=1782119497","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/shame-by-salman-rushdie","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}