{"product_id":"the-ground-beneath-her-feet-by-salman-rushdie","title":"'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' by Salman Rushdie","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"604\"\u003eSalman Rushdie’s \u003cem data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"196\"\u003eThe Ground Beneath Her Feet\u003c\/em\u003e is a vast, rock-and-roll Orpheus myth about music, fame and exile.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"604\"\u003eAt its centre are Vina Apsara and Ormus Cama, two Indian musicians whose romance becomes tangled with superstardom, death, earthquakes and doubles. Reality becomes unsteady, as though someone put the file in the wrong slot. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"1048\"\u003eRushdie was already one of the major literary figures of the late twentieth century by the time this appeared, and this novel has all his usual machinery running at full tilt. It is lush with his textbook verbal abundance, mythic patterning, historical sprawl, political exile, pop culture, religion, sex, jokes, ghosts, gods and probably three more things trying to get through customs. It’s not modest. It is Rushdie doing the big maximalist circus, with amplification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1183\" data-end=\"1389\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback first edition, first printing, published by Jonathan Cape in 1999. Very good copy with dust jacket; light general shelfwear and minor edge wear, with clean internal pages.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44664321638483,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-27T163619.490.png?v=1779863826","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-ground-beneath-her-feet-by-salman-rushdie","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}