The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (EPUB)

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From the world renowned author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses comes Salman Rushdie’s brilliant novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, featuring an epic, exuberant love story with a rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack.At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. 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. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus’s childhood friend and Vina’s sometime lover, her “back-door man,” the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book’s true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age’s goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale.Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie’s most gripping novel and his boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be, an account of the intimate, flawed encounter between the East and the West, a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy, high (and low) passions, high (and low) culture. It is a tale of love, death, and rock ‘n’ roll.

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⭐After waiting what seemed like forever for the Kindle release of “The Ground Beneath Her Feet” I’ll admit that I was a bit scared. Would the book be all that I’d remembered it to be? Would the musical relevance (by now twelve years old)still ring as true? Have I even, perhaps, come to know the author in a different way since my initial reading? Would this affect my opinion of this work?It’s fitting that my premonitions mirrored the fear which so much of the last twelve years of human history have been dominated by, but it was all fiction.This novel was once again a revelation. More than a tribute to a city or the condemnation of a homeland – Rushdie has given us each of these more than once – this was a true story about love. We get to know the characters in this love triangle in such depth that their actions seem not only plausible, but required. ‘Of course that is how she would have reacted to such news’ I thought more than once. What was more, if at times one wondered how realistic it would be to have such intimate knowledge of massive rock stars, but we were also given the feeling which WOULD have been ours – that of the fan. We can feel the joy as the band takes off and the fear as they make a misstep… this was what following a band was in the days before instant downloads and on-demand video.The lyrics and poetry are, for the most part, creative and lovely. this IS Rushdie, so of course there are a thousand clever nods to everyone from dead rock stars to presidents. There is also the slight twisting of history for which Rushdie is well known. The lyrics for Beneath Her Feet (masterfully recorded by U2 shortly after the original release) are breathtaking and poignant.I cannot say enough how much I recommend this novel… Rushdie isn’t for everyone and he may never win a Nobel. I have a feeling that he’s fine with both of those eventualities. For those of us who have been taken in by his lush prose…. the end of a story is only the beginning of the enjoyment as we pour over it again and again for evenings to come.Bravo Sir Salman, bravo.

⭐It is not Salman Rushdie’s best although there are enough moments of delight to enjoy in his vivid descriptions and wild imagination. It is rather repetitive without seeming to add value to the theme, the storyline, or the character development. I’ve been delighting again in the rich prose of Tolkien and Tolstoy so, although I enjoy the off-beat tempo of Rushdie, the totally exposed characters, the exotic settings and people, their unique ways of viewing their own worlds, their honesty, their demands and vulnerability – and the tumult they cause in their own lives and that of others – even extending to the natural world which becomes seemingly unnatural. But my relationship with Rushdie is love/dismiss; perhaps this is due to my own limitations but I am delighted by characters and incidents and development of fascinating themes in some of his novels – and bored by others. I got quite irritated with what seem to be over-indulgences – so much so that I never read to the end of the book which is unusual for me.

⭐I read “Midnight’s Children” and “The Satanic Verses” and I like Rushdie’s style, so looked for another of his books. What I enjoyed about those two was a balance between a sense of humor, interesting asides that blended with the main story, sometimes beautiful images well written, and an interesting plot. From reading other reviews, it sounded like this might be his third-best book. I hope not. I got about 25% through the book and wasn’t sure there was a plot. The narrator is a photographer who was a childhood friend of the singer at the center of the story and her husband and musical partner. The narrator also was in love with her, as were many men who met her. By the time I put the book down at that quarter pole of this slow marathon of a story, there was lots of background and almost no story.Maybe the story picks up dramatically after the point I quit. If I find that out from some of my reading friends, I’ll return to give it another try. I doubt that will happen.

⭐Rushdie rises far above other writers in his adept use of language and plotting. This novel was memorable because of the knowledge he imparted about earthquakes which revealed much research on his part. The story is about a family and two brothers in love with the same rather mysterious woman who defies description. His understanding of family dynamics is extraordinary and the plot of the book moves it along at a fast pace even though it is long. I can highly recommend this book. My only criticism is Rushdie’s love of lists which sometimes gets boring.

⭐The book itself is brilliant, Salman Rushdie is a master! However, I was really disappointed at Amazon’s delivery. Two pages inside the book were torn apart so that those two half cannot be read at all and the rest of these two pages were completely covered with black marker pen! This was my first and my last order from Amazon. I did not even place a complaint since I was so disappointed that I do not even want to bother myself with that anymore. But again, the book itself is a masterpiece!

⭐This was one of Rushdie’s finest, and stands alongside the film nicely. After reading “The Satanic Verses” I devoured Rushdie, and I found that I really loved his voice and perspective. There is some great comfort in his work, along with fun and excitement. A readers experience like few you will find that truly puts you on the ride without a safety belt and trusts you to survive.

⭐Only just got around to starting this book. About 5 chapters in and I now get why Mr. Rushdie has been lauded as a great writer. Just irritated that I haven’t read any of his books earlier. Characters jump off the page immediately, his prose is captivating and the humour in some of his word play reminds me of Douglas Adams. Really enjoying this and will be looking back through his other books soon.

⭐I bought this as a gift for a like-minded friend. I read it years ago and loved it. One of Rushdie’s best after Midnight’s Children.

⭐Amazing book but at times a struggle to get through as there is a lot of description.

⭐Good book

⭐Enjoyable overall, but dwelled for too long in parts and strayed too much between a good story and pseudo-mysticism at times for my liking.

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