Shame by Salman Rushdie

Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Shame by Salman Rushdie. First Edition/First Printing. Magical Realism.

"Shame is a modern Arabian Nights fable set against a thinly disguised real background. The central symbolic figure is the simpleminded Sufiya (a name meaning “wisdom”). Her father, a rapidly rising army officer, is ashamed because his firstborn child is a girl."