The Ground Beneath Her Feet

A mythic tale of love celebrity and seismic events—all set to a rock ''n'' roll soundtrack: This is Rushdie at his absolute almost insolently global best (Toni Morrison).When the famous singer Vina Apsara is caught in a devastating earthquake she is never seen again by human eyes. This is her story and that of Ormus Cama the lover who finds loses seeks and again finds her over and over throughout his own extraordinary life in music.Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus''s childhood friend and Vina''s sometime lover her back-door man the photographer Rai whose astonishing voice filled with stories images myths anger wisdom humor and love is perhaps the book''s true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina he finds that he is also revealing his own intimate truths.Around these three the uncertain world itself is beginning to crack revealing great abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie''s most gripping novel a vision of our shaken mutating times a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus a novel of high (and low) comedy high (and low) passions high (and low) culture. It is a tale of love death and rock ''n'' roll.