Shalimar the Clown Cecily von Ziegesar bestselling author of The Curious

bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

“Power in Economics” tries to end the immunization of traditional economics against the important questions raised by the fact of power

Damaged by their experience in Arcade's Murderworld

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" A writer known for his searing exploration of power

Shalimar the Clown Cecily von Ziegesar bestselling author of The CuriousThe lives of two vastly different men intersect for one fatal moment. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls is stabbed in broad daylight by his Kashmiri Muslim chauffeur, a tragic eccentric who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. To explain how they arrived at that point, Salman Rushdie must reach back into the history of three continents and construct a parable of multiculturalism. A finely textured novel by "a perpetual storyteller."