THE GROUND BENEATH HER-SALMAN RUSHDIE

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. Set in the inspiring, vain, fabulous world of rock'n'roll, this is the story of a love that stretches across continents, across Vina and Ormus's whole lives, and even beyond death.

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The first great rock'n'roll novel in the English language'

 

A ground-breaking work... Rushdie turns our century of celebrity and atrocity inside out. He makes you see the world in a new light'

 

`Uniquely exhilarating... Salman Rushdie once more proves his mastery... His sheer linguistic energy is a delight'

 

A carnival of words ... a triumphant                                

hymn to the transforming power                    

of love'