Ground Beneath Her Feet

Resumen del libro

At the beginning of this stunning novel that takes us from India to England and America, Vina Apsara, a famous and much loved singer with a wild and irresistible voice, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks and again finds her, over and over throughout his own extraordinary life in music. The story of a love that stretches across their whole lives, and even beyond death.
Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, the photographer Rai, whose voice, filled with stories, anger, wisdom, humour and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods but he, at least, lives to tell the tale.

Their world is filled with unforgettable people who, like them, are caught up in the inspiring, vain, fabulous story of rock'n'roll, in counterculture dreams, the Vietnam war, pirate radio stations, drugs, music and political marches, the rise of corporate power and a society grown greedy. The real' history of the world shifts, our memories shift, the uncertain world itself begins to tremble and break. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. Twins can speak to each other from beyond the grave, and murder can perhaps be committed by telepathic instruction.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times. It's also a vivid account of the intimate, flawed encounter between East and West, a remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy, high (and low) passion, high (and low) culture. In short: a tale of love, death and rock'n'roll.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Salman Rushdie x{0026}lt;/B (Bombay, 1947), es autor de numerosos libros, de entre los que destacan x{0026}lt;I Hijos de la medianoche x{0026}lt;/I -que ganó el premio Booker en 1981, el Booker de los Booker en 1993 y, en 2008, el Mejor de los Booker -, x{0026}lt;I Los versos satánicosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El último suspiro del morox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Joseph Anton x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Quijotex{0026}lt;/I . Ha sido galardonado con el Grinzane Cavour y el Premio Nacional de las Artes de Estados Unidos, además de otros muchos premios. En 2007, Salman Rushdie fue nombrado Caballero del Imperio Británico por su contribución a la literatura. Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y Commandeur dans lx{0026} x02019;Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, y abanderado en la lucha por la libertad de expresión, en 2022 sobrevivió a un ataque sufrido mientras dictaba una conferencia en el estado de Nueva York.x{0026}lt;/P