Shame

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SHAME

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize ‘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

Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared the symptoms of pregnancy, as they did everything else, inseparably. At their six  breasts, Omar was warned against all feelings and nuances of shame. It was training which would prove useful when he left his mothers’ fortress (via the dumb- waiter) to face his shameless future. As captivating fairy-tale, devastating political satire and exquisite, uproarious entertainment, Shame is a novel without rival.

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