Shalimar the Clown

by Salman Rushdie | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0224077848 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingCaptainCarrotwing of Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on 11/6/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by wingCaptainCarrotwing from Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Sunday, November 6, 2005
Hier meine Übersicht über den Stand des Booker Prize Roundabout:

Kommen noch:
Salman Rushdie: Shalimar The Clown (CaptainCarrot)


Schon gelesen:
Zadie Smith: On Beauty (elhamisabel)
JM Coetzee: Slow Man (urfin)
James Meek: The People´s Act of Love (Sternschnuppe28)
Sebastian Barry: A long long way (Sternschnuppe28)
William Wall: This is the Country (humptydumpty)
Rachel Cusky: In the Fold (humptydumpty)
Ian Mcewan: Saturday (pustefix)
Harry Thompson: This Thing of Darkness (urfin)
Dan Jacobson: All for Love (Sternschnuppe28)
Julian Barnes: Arthur & George(lesezeichen)
Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black (barnhelm)
John Banville: The Sea (barnhelm)
Ali Smith: The Accidental (elhamisabel)
Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (sternschnuppe28)
Tash Aw: The Harmony Silk Factory (Qantaqa)


Zu meinem Buch:
Ich komme im Moment nicht dazu, das Buch zu lesen, also soll es zuerst reisen.

1. Sternschnuppe28
2. elhamisabel
3. pustefix (nach Weihnachten)
4. urfin - hier ist es gerade
5. lesezeichen
6. humptydumpty
7. Qantaqa
8. barnhelm
9. CaptainCarrot
Und nach dem Booker-roundabout:
10. Mary-T

Journal Entry 2 by wingCaptainCarrotwing from Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Heute reist Shalimar zu Sternschnuppe28 ab. Allen Beteiligten viel Freude an dem Buch! (Die BCID steht innen im Deckel.)

Journal Entry 3 by Sternschnuppe28 from Flörsheim am Main, Hessen Germany on Sunday, November 13, 2005
Dankeschön für´s Zusenden!

Journal Entry 4 by Sternschnuppe28 from Flörsheim am Main, Hessen Germany on Thursday, December 1, 2005
I am very proud that I managed to read my first Rushdie-Book (after having given up "Grimus" some years ago)! It was quite a challenge, because his English is not the easiest to go through and beacuse I was not a bit familiar with Kashimir´s history. But I managed it and was rewarded with a very interesting story and a beautiful language.

"Shalimar the clown" tells the love story of the Muslim Shalimar, a tightrope walker, and the Hindu Boonyi, a dancer, in a troupe from Pachigam, a small Kashmiri village, where both Muslims and Hindus live and work together peacefully. When Boonyi starts an affair with American ambassador Max Ophuls and leaves her husband behind, enraged Shalimar transforms into a cold-blooded Islamic terrorist. The continuing story of Boonyi and Shalimar reflects the history of Kashmir and its Hindu-Muslim/ India-Pakistan conflict.
Rushdie covers two of the most discussed issues of our time: extremism in multicultural societies and Islamic terrorism within a densely written narrative that seems to lead in many directions, but is (in the end) tightly woven together within a very personal story of love, honour and revenge.

"Shalimar the Clown" continued travelling to elhamisabel two days ago.

Journal Entry 5 by elhamisabel from Frankfurt am Main, Hessen Germany on Thursday, December 1, 2005
I just recieved this book. Thank you Sternschnuppe28 and CaptainCarrot.
Be warned: the only other book by Salman Rushdie I read I did not like at all. So it may be that I give up on this one. Of course I will try to read it. But I'm sure it'll take me some time to do so.

Journal Entry 6 by elhamisabel from Frankfurt am Main, Hessen Germany on Sunday, January 1, 2006
I admit defeat. I'm giving up on this. I really tried hard to like it but I didn't care for it at all. No, no magical realism (that I hate) made it unreadable, I just wasn't interested in the story at all.
I'll send it to pustefix in the next few days.

Journal Entry 7 by pustefix from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, January 7, 2006
arrived in the post yesterday, am just about to start reading it

Journal Entry 8 by pustefix from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, February 18, 2006
I was really struggling with this to start off with and was very close to giving up. I hated those few chapters at the beginning when they are in the village and everyone has three names ad everything is magical. I was reading it in little bits before going to sleep, often with a few days in between usually when I picked up the book and started reading, I didn't have a clue what was going on or who was who.
But then I went on holiday and decided to give it one last chance, which was just as well, because I got into it, finally! Once there was a plot, all the magical stuff didn't bother me any more, and I actually got really involved, although I did still think that bits of it were a bit style over substance. Also wasn't entirely sure about the ending.

Journal Entry 9 by wingUrfinwing from Wolfsburg, Niedersachsen Germany on Thursday, March 16, 2006
The book arrived with me a few days ago. Now I've read the JEs I'm not very motivated. They're all rather putting off... But, since I've never had a go at magical realism (at least not known to me:), I shall start reading it anyway. To be continued...

Nachtrag 29 March 2007:
I declare defeat... sending the book unread back home to CaptainCarrot.

Journal Entry 10 by wingCaptainCarrotwing from Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Shalimar ist heute bei mir angekommen - danke, urfin! Sobald dich das Buch gelesen habe, schicke ich es wieder in den Umlauf. Und du hast dann natürlich die erste Wahl.

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