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Rushdie retells the myth of Orpheus and Euridice in the story of two musicians, a rock singer named Vina Apsara and the composer Orpheus Cama. Beginning with Vina's death in an earthquake, the novel travels back to tell the stories of these two characters as they intertwine with many others. Eventually, Vina is reincarnated, and the lovers find each other again.
| Size | | Length: | 575 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 18.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"To those readers (and I seem to know a lot of them) who say, 'I've already tried Rushdie but I always give up around page 50': try this one. It sucks you in as remorselessly as the earth swallows its heroine....Dickens frequently comes to mind, not only in Rushdie's intimate understanding of how the music business operates, but in his multitude of slightly weird and eerie characters..."
Literary Review - Alastair Niven (04/19/1999)
"Despite Rushdie's myriad talents as a writer, the resulting novel is a decidedly disappointing performance: a handful of dazzling set pieces, bundled together with long-winded digressions, tiresome soliloquizing about love and death and art, and cliched descriptions of the rock 'n' roll business worthy of Jackie Collins....Sadly for the reader, Rushdie seems to have misplaced his magician's ability to fuse the mythic and the mundane, the surreal and the authentic, into a seamless whole."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (04/13/1999)
"Rushdie...does achieve life. He achieves it not in his cartoonish and allegorical characters, but in his language, which is innocently alive, and which he awards to all of his characters, so that they begin to share some of the vitalism of their author. All of Rushdie's characters are word-gamers and punners..."
New Republic - James Wood (04/02/1999)
"THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET is a flamboyant extravaganza, mingling earthquakes and threats of apocalypse, the lunacies and grandeurs of music, myths from the dawn of history and the latest in tabloid journalism. It all comes alive on the page, this cockeyed vision that pierces the heart of things as they are, and it's Salman Rushdie at the height of his powers."
Locus - Faren Miller (09/19/1999)
"An unparalleled demonstration of a great writer at the peak of his powers."
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