{"product_id":"2026200012592-secondhand-shame","title":"Shame","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a fictional country that mirrors Pakistan with unsettling precision, Salman Rushdie's Shame chronicles the rise and fall of two powerful families — the Shakils and the Hyders — whose blood feud plays out against a backdrop of military coups, political betrayal, and suffocating patriarchy. At the centre of this darkly comic saga stands Omar Khayyam Shakil, a man born of three mothers and destined for a life of moral cowardice, and Sufiya Zinobia, a young woman whose repressed shame transforms into something monstrous and terrifying. Rich with the hallucinatory energy that defines Rushdie's signature style, the novel fuses magic realism with razor-sharp political satire to construct a world where honour is a weapon wielded against the powerless and history repeats itself in ever more grotesque forms.\n\nShame stands as one of the great post-colonial novels of the twentieth century, a searing indictment of authoritarian power and the violence done to women in the name of culture and tradition. Rushdie writes with the intoxicating density of myth, layering allegory upon allegory to produce a narrative that is at once a fairy tale, a political tract, and a meditation on guilt and identity. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1983, the novel confirmed Rushdie as one of literature's most audacious and essential voices — and its themes of shame, silence, and retribution remain as urgent today as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130991419611,"sku":"2026200012592-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/85f86371-1d3f-4ebd-bd3d-77ceed479dc9.png?v=1786593834","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012592-secondhand-shame","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}