Shame

"It is an astute, gleeful, political tale in which Rushdie dazzles with his prodigious gift for satire." - Guardian

"Salman Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great story tellers" - Observer

"There can seldom have been so robust and baroque an incarnation of the political novel as Shame. It can be read as a fable, polemic or excoriation; as history or as fiction... This is the novel as myth and as satire." - Sunday Telegraph

"Shame is every bit as good as Midnight's Children. It is a pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives." - The Times

"Salman Rushdie is a magnificent writer. He has a free-ranging imagination and a coarse, strong wit. He attackes language with energy and without constraint." - Independent

"Shame is a lively, amusing and exasperating work... What he invents, with enormous gusto, is "a sort of modern fairy tale"... I found Mr. Rushdie's style a source of delight, a bright stream of words that lifted me happily past the most threatening snags and whirlpools of this impossible tale." - The New York Times Book Review