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In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men–one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure–Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation–“shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.”
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May 25, 2022 · Shame was the first novel Salman Rushdie wrote following his brilliantly received Midnight’s Children. Short, fast-paced and powerful, Shame is a novel of a great writer in his prime, flexing the magic-realism, post-colonial, musculature he is known for.
Dec 19, 2021 · ~ Salman Rushdie, Shame. Shame was sandwiched between two of Rushdie’s most renowned works: his highly-acclaimed Midnight’s Children and his highly controversial The Satanic Verses. Fears of being overshadowed by its predecessor proved unfounded as Shame managed to stand its own ground.
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Feb 8, 2022 · I review & discuss the book here. Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame: Shame of Shamelessness (Bongrae Seok) Seok argues that shame is a genuine moral emotion and moral disposition.
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Sep 8, 1983 · Salman Rushdie. 3.86. 12,557 ratings747 reviews. The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.”
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The book contains eleven articles focusing on shame from different perspectives that are grouped according to “Theoretical perspectives on shame and culture,” “Culture-specific perspectives on shame,” and “The application of shame and culture in therapeutic and counseling practices.”
