![]() ![]() The story is told by Rai Merchant, one of the 3 main protagonists in this epic rock and roll love tale which follows Rai’s lifelong love Vina Apsara and lifelong friend Ormus Camas in their own troubled love story, which is set primarily between the 1960s and the 1980s. The words play and trip and dive and move and stretch and pun and create new meaning while referencing everything we know from our children’s storybooks (Jungle Book, Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, Wizard of Oz), music (from Buddy Holly to Aida), history (from the Mayflower to WWII to the partition of India) and great literature (from Aeschylus to Joyce) while reminding us constantly that we are in the world of fiction, and that this world is, in a way, no less real than the world around us. Love is the main hero of this novel which is about, among other things, love, loss, life, death, the lines between truth and fiction, beauty, and art. This was a sentiment with which we were all prepared to live.” So says the narrator and one of three main characters in Rushdie’s latest novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet. ![]() It is love that is a sign of our humanity. “In the front lobby, carved into a stone wall, was a Latin motto. ![]() ![]()
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