{"product_id":"the-ground-beneath-her-feet-9780312254995","title":"The Ground Beneath Her Feet","description":"\u003cp\u003eSalman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAround 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Ground Beneath Her Feet\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312254995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/12\/2000 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/07\/2001 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Salman Rushdie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635814985884,"sku":"9780312254995","price":33.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0d11657a-23f8-4031-a5fd-70e6808ea0e2.jpg?v=1603840600","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-ground-beneath-her-feet-9780312254995","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}