The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie

The greatest novel ever written about rock & roll gods, "The ground beneath her feet" is exciting and thrilling yet philosophical and condensed into content and meaning. Rushdie uses the story of two pop superstars, Vina Apsara and Ormus Cama, as an excuse to tell the story of the world, or at least, a parellel world. The author tries almost too hard to show every little detail of this world. The structure is well organized with a slow build up that leads to a climax, though written retrospectively. Perhaps a little too original this fiction tries to question solid concepts such as reality and human nature. Rushdie almost seem to be trying ...  Read the complete review

In which the most famous and best-loved singer of our age, Vina Apsara, is lost in a catastrophic earthquake. Her story, and those of her husband Ormus and childhood friend Rai are recounted by that same childhood friend in a novel of considerable range. Over nearly six hundred pages, a strong narrative thread is pursued as it courses through Bombay, England, New York and Mexico, taking in the major concerns of our century, celebrity and atrocity, as well as pop music, classical literature, love, death, fidelity... oh, and about a million other topics. If you're worried that this respected, intellectual, very writerly author would fail to convey the raw, ...  Read the complete review