![]() ![]() While not shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, The Ground Beneath her Feet won the Eurasian section of the Commonwealth Prize. It is a great late twentieth century humanist message, arrived at out of a fierce awareness of loss, pain, fear and grief’ ( The Guardian, 28 March 1999). Beginning in Bombay in the fifties, moving to London in the sixties, and New York for the last quarter century, the novel pulsates with a half-century of music and celebrates the power of rock ’n’ roll’ (Hermione Lee considered The Ground Beneath her Feet ‘part rock-opera, part Indo-classical myth, part love-story, part surreal space-fiction, part seismological meditation’, concluding: ‘e have to create our own alternative universes, our own answers to what “shouldn’t be this way”: in this case, out of music, and love. ‘In this remaking of the myth of Orpheus, Rushdie tells the story of Vina Apsara, a pop star, and Ormus Cama, an extraordinary songwriter and musician, who captivate and change the world through their music and their romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() First edition, uncorrected proof copy, marked ‘a Jonathan Cape uncorrected proof’ on the upper wrapper. ![]()
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