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Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece.At the start of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. That is her story, and this of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the storyplot of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he's also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to acquire ambitions of his own. And lives to share with the tale.Around these three, the uncertain world itself is starting to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to surface in the fabric of the true. You will discover glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's most gripping novel and his boldest imaginative act, a vision in our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the complete of what's and what might be, an account of the intimate, flawed face between your East and the West, an excellent remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy, high (and low) passions, high (and low) culture. It really is an account of love, death, and rock 'n' roll.
