The central character, India, is the illegitimate child of a former United States ambassador to India, Maximilian Ophuls. The title refers to a character in the story, a Kashmiri villager named Shalimar, who performs a tightrope act for the amusement of the other villagers. The town itself is imaginary, but it is located in an accurate geographic location not far from Srinagar.
The novel is based partly in a small town in the region of Kashmir. Shalimar the Clown won the 2005 Vodafone Crossword Book Award and was one of the finalists for the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards. Shalimar is also the name of one of the characters featured in the novel. Srinagar is one of several Mughal Gardens, which were laid out in several parts of undivided India when the Mughals reigned over the subcontinent. Shalimar the Clown derives its name from Shalimar Gardens, in the vicinity of Srinagar. The novel took Rushdie four years to write, and was initially published on 6 September 2005 by Jonathan Cape. Shalimar the Clown is a 2005 novel by Salman Rushdie. And gradually it emerges that beyond this unholy trinity of Max, India and Shalimar, lurks a fourth, shadowy figure, one who binds them all together.Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2005), Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction (2005) Read more back in Kashmir, a ruined paradise not so much lost as shattered. The killing has its roots halfway across the globe. One morning he gets up, goes to work, and kills his employer, America's former counter-terrorist chief Maximilian Ophuls, in view of the victim's illegitimate daughter, India.
But fate has played him cruelly, torn him away from his beloved home and brought him to Los Angeles, where he works as a chauffeur. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home of Kashmir. 'Rushdie's most engaging book since Midnight's Children' Observer Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter.
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