Shame

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Condición del ejemplar: Acceptable. In a country that is not quite Pakistan, a strange child named Omar Khayyam Shakil is born to three sisters who never reveal which of them is his true mother. Raised in isolation in a vast, crumbling mansion, he grows up to become a doctor, a man on the edges of history who will be drawn into the turbulent lives of the nation’s most powerful families. At the heart of the novel is the bitter rivalry between two men: Iskander Harappa, a charismatic and decadent playboy turned politician, and Raza Hyder, a stern army general. Their ambitions, and their struggle for power, shape the fate of a nation. Into this world comes Sufiya Zinobia, Raza Hyder’s fragile daughter, who seems to absorb all the shame that others refuse to feel, until it transforms into something terrifying. Blending fable, political satire, history and magical realism, Salman Rushdie’s third novel is a fierce and darkly comic exploration of shame and shamelessness, violence and repression, and the cost of power. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Shame is an inventive, provocative and compelling work by one of the great storytellers of our time.