In the border town of Q. and later in the corridors of power of a thinly veiled Pakistan, the fates of General Raza Hyder, the Prime Minister Iskander Harappa, and Hyder's shame-driven daughter Sufiya Zinobia entangle with Omar Khayyam Shakil, a man born to three mother-sisters and raised without shame himself.
Books mentioned in Shame (5)
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli: “'"Of those who have attained the position of prince by villainy,"' Iskander's voice whispered in his ear, 'Il Principe, chapter eight.'”
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: “They told me the story of a recent attempt to stage Julius Caesar at the University of P.”
The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman: “From The Suicide, a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking.'”
Danton's Death by Georg Büchner: “Danton is on a London stage, not really Danton at all but an actor speaking the lines of Georg Büchner in English translation”
Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont: “the classic fable Beauty and the Beast is simply the story of an arranged marriage”
Books that mention Shame (1)
The Disappearers by Marlon James: “those three sisters at the beginning of Salman Rushdie's novel Shame”