In the Kashmiri village of Pachigam, the clown and tightrope walker Shalimar marries the dancer Boonyi, whose affair with the American ambassador Max Ophuls sets off a chain of betrayal and revenge that turns Shalimar into an assassin and eventually entangles Max's daughter Kashmira in Los Angeles.
Books mentioned in Shalimar the Clown (3)
The Country Without a Post Office by Agha Shahid Ali: “opening epigraph, attributed AGHA SHAHID ALI, The Country Without a Post Office”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “opening epigraph, 'A plague on both your houses.' —MERCUTIO, IN Romeo and Juliet, BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”
Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant: “the fifteenth-century Strasbourg author of Stultifera Navis, or Das Narrenschiff (1494), a satire of...”