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The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's sixth novel. Published in 1999, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth, with rock music replacing Orpheus's lyre. The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to which he attaches an endless series of references.
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Apr 1, 1999 · Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece. 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.
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Author Salman Rushdie's novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet contains lyrics for a song of the same name. In the novel, the fictional character Ormus Cama writes the lyrics as a lamentation for his lover, Vina Apsara.
The book begins on February 14, 1989 (the date the fatwa was issued against Rushdie) in Mexico, the moment an earthquake splits the ground under forty-four-year-old Vina and swallows her. After this tragic opening, Rai Merchant’s first-person narrative jumps back to 1950s Bombay, shortly after India gained independence from the British.
Feb 8, 2000 · The Ground Beneath Her Feet Lyrics: All my life, I worshipped her / Her golden voice, her beauty's beat / How she made us feel, how she made me real / And the ground beneath her...
Apr 13, 1999 · Diary entries fancifully addressed to TV host Ellen DeGeneres serve as flashbacks to Lily’s teenage years, when she met her first love, Atlas Corrigan, a homeless boy she found squatting in a neighbor’s house. When Atlas turns up in Boston, now a successful chef, he begs Lily to leave Ryle.
