by Salman Rushdie · Random House · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439713791
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«Shalimar el payaso» is the novel by Salman Rushdie published by Random House in hardcover (464 pages, in Spanish).
In Los Angeles, in 1991, retired ambassador Maximilian Ophuls is murdered outside the house of his illegitimate daughter; he is stabbed by his chauffeur, a Kashmiri Muslim who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The novel traces the history of both men and of the woman who links them, between California, Kashmir, France and England, and blends intrigue, legends and political conflicts while showing the transformation of a kind man into a terrorist because of a love affair.
Translation by Miguel Sáenz. Original work: «Shalimar the Clown».
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
