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The Ground Beneath Her Feet

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In this brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus, Salman Rushdie tells the love story of Vina Aspara, a famous and much-loved singer, and Ormus Cama, an extraordinary songwriter and musician, who captivate and change the world through their music and their romance. Beginning in Bombay in the 1950s, moving to vibrant London in the '60s, and frenzied New York for the last quarter century, the novel pulsates with a half century of music and celebrates the awesome power of rock'n'roll.

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First published April 1,1999
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commonwealth writers prize, 

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April 1, 2000 by Picador USA
ISBN
9780312255084
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031225508X
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English

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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
After his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran. In total, 20 countries banned the book. Numerous killings and bombings have been carried out by extremists who cite the book as motivation, sparking a debate about censorship and religiously motivated violence. In 2022, Rushdie survived a stabbing at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York.
In 1983, Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was appointed a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1999. Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him 13th on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States. He was named Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University in 2015. Earlier, he taught at Emory University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the events following The Satanic Verses. Rushdie was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in April 2023.
Rushdie's personal life, including his five marriages and four divorces, has attracted notable media attention and controversies, particularly during his marriage to actress Padma Lakshmi.

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Tunnelrat47
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April 17,2025
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From Midnight Children on, seems that Roshdie’s preference moves tward the language rather than the narration itself. Comparing ”The ground beneath of her feet” and ”Midnight children” one comes to a more beautiful language but less interesting events.
در اثار رشدی زبان از زیبایی خارق العاده ای برخوردار است. واژه هایی که رشدی در زبان انگلیسی ابداع می کند و عمدتن مخلوطی از انگلیسی هندی- بریتانیایی ست، گاه به توجیه صحنه، عمل یا شخصیت در روایت کمک شایانی می کند. بسیاری از واژه های ابداعی رشدی در انکلیسی بریتانیای امروز به راحتی جا افتاده و معمول شده است. در "زمین زیر پای او(زن)" آن چنان که در "بچه های نیمه شب" و "شرم" دیده ایم، داستان دیگر به اندازه ی فضا سازی و بیان منظور از اهمیت بالایی برخوردار نیست.
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Aeowina
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April 17,2025
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It took a long time to finish this one.
F. Gump with dementia, or on psychedelics.
I think anyone who isn't of my generation may not be able to make heads or tails of this story. I would guess many of the references would be missed and the story would flatten and be obscure.
I liked the "in the know" humor - (you had to be there) as Mr Rushdie gives us his insider's wink.
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Necrotoxic01
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April 17,2025
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Reading a Salman Rushdie book is like going on a journey of adventure and surprise. His books are very rewarding. No exception made with The Ground Beneath Her Feet, a majestic opus spanning fifty years over three continents of rock music history and excess. The three main characters are accompanied by a kaleidoscope of secondary characters all enthralling in their own way and the storyline is inspired by the Ancient Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. A splendid read.
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Itzac
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April 17,2025
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Rushdie, doing what he does best. The first 100 pages, or so, totally blew me away, making me want to read everything this guy has ever written. Hats off!
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missmatsura93
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April 17,2025
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"Le uniche persone che vedono tutto il quadro sono quelle che escono dalla cornice"


La terra sotto i suoi piedi è quello che manca a Vina in primo luogo, e poi a tutti i comprimari di questa ode appassionata all'immortalità dell'Amore con la A maiuscola...Vina scompare inghiottita dalla terra, ma non prima che Rai ce ne racconti ogni pensiero, gesto o segreto rimpianto, e certo non prima che il lettore abbia abbondantemente compreso che Salman Rushdie, mentre racconta di un amore per una dea, sta anche raccontando della sua passione per la sua terra, per una donna vacua e volubile, e per tutto quel che nella vita si è lasciato indietro...

ps. consiglio la lettura di questo romanzo dopo quella della biografia di Rushdie (Joseph Anton) dal momento che contestualizzandone il momento in cui è stato scritto è più facile comprendere il perchè di tanta foga amorosa per un mito e allo stesso tempo per una donna che in realtà non è che un archetipo...
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ANDy342
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April 17,2025
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Absolute favourite. The man weaves a tale like no other. <3
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AsterDogma
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April 17,2025
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I expected to love this. A friend with great taste recommended it, and her description left my mouth watering. A modern, rock 'n' roll, multicultural take on one of my favorite myths? Before I opened it, I expected it to be a new favorite. Despite chronic boredom, difficulty following the story, and an overwhelming impression that Rushdie is far too much in love with himself, I continued to hold out hope for the first few hundred pages. Once I let that go, I only kept reading out of the sense that if I didn't finish the damn thing, all those hours of misery I'd already invested would have been wasted. Well, I should have wasted them instead of wasting more besides. This has the distinction of being the only book whose ending I forgot before I closed it. Perhaps that was because I was distracted by trying to decide which wall to hurl it at.
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rotokun
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April 17,2025
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Another great story by Salman Rushdie, with lots of wordplay, alternative history, mythology, and storylines weaving in and out of each other. I love his style.
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