Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again find her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus' childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, the photographer Rai. Around these 3 the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break: cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, and a brilliant remaking of the Orpheus myth. Rushdie is also the author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.
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"I loved this book. It was passed on to me in India, and I didn't anticipate liking it. The characters are so full and vibrant and their lives flit past so fast and you live vicariously through them for what is a great many pages, but you don't notice. You just want them to live 3 lifetimes more. " — Alex (5 out of 5 stars)
"I loved this book. It was passed on to me in India, and I didn't anticipate liking it. The characters are so full and vibrant and their lives flit past so fast and you live vicariously through them for what is a great many pages, but you don't notice. You just want them to live 3 lifetimes more. "
" This is on my summer re-read list! "
" wonderful vocabulary, story that spans most of a lifetime. compelling and mostly gripping. "
" One hell of a brilliant book! "
" This book is a modern and twisted rendition of the Orpheus story that included a demented but honest love triangle. Some of the poetry in the book is beautiful; so beautiful in fact that U2 made a song out of one set of them. "
" i'll probably read this again in a few months "
" With all of the swirl around Rushdie because of the fatwa, people would think that he is overly serious and unapproachable. Not this book. I really liked it and recommend it highly. "
" If you like Rushdie, you would love this. It is very dense but very imaginative and his use of language is amazing. "
" One of the most amazing descriptions og photography I have ever read. "
" I love his use of language. The music references were also fun. The twisted history is also entertaining. I enjoyed finding real people with their names changed as well. Hi sbooks alwyas take me a while to red but I thoroughly enjoy the time spent reading them "
" First Salman Rushdie book I read. Not as dense as his other books...light, smooth prose. "
" I couldn't get into the narrative. "
" Book on CD - 2 1/2 stars, it was too long but it had parts that were interesting. "
Salman Rushdie is the author of a collection of short stories, a collection of essays, and fourteen novels, including Midnight's Children, which won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker. He has also published four works of nonfiction and coedited two anthologies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, hewas knighted in 2007 for services to literature.
Christopher Cazenove (1943–2010), one of England’s finest actors, starred on stage and television in the United States and Great Britain. His motion-picture credits include A Knight’s Tale, Eye of the Needle, Children of the Full Moon, and Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill. He played Ben Carrington on television’s Dynasty.
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