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And we are once again urged to read in their story a lesson about our fragmented,Ĭhaotic world, a world that this time is on the verge of cracking apart from tectonic cultural shifts and political and social tremors. We are once again treated to the story of several characters who leave India to wander the world and invent new identities for themselves abroad. Like so many of Rushdie's earlier novels "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" addresses the themes of exile, metamorphosis and flux, and like those earlier books it examines such issues through the prism of multipleĭichotomies: between home and rootlessness, love and death, East and West, reason and the irrational. Love and death and art, and cliched descriptions of the rock 'n' roll business worthy of Jackie Collins. Picture Orpheus trying to recapture his beloved (or at least her memory) by going on a worldwide stadiumĭespite Rushdie's myriad talents as a writer, the resulting novel is a decidedly disappointing performance: a handful of dazzling set pieces, bundled together with long-winded digressions, tiresome soliloquizing about

Picture Eurydice not only being condemned to Hades but also being literally swallowed by the ground during an earthquake. Picture Orpheus (one Ormus Cama, in Rushdie's telling) as a brooding, kitschy combo of Elvis, Dylan and Lennon and Eurydice (that is, Vina Apsara) as a sort of fairy-tale composite of Madonna and Diana, princess of Wales. He Ground Beneath Her Feet," Salman Rushdie's loose, baggy monster of a new novel, is a retelling of the Orpheus myth that recasts both theĭoomed musician and his lost lady love as rock stars. Other novels written by him are: Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Fury, Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence.Books of The Times: 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet': Turning Rock 'N' Roll Into QuakesīOOKS OF THE TIMES 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet': Turning Rock 'N' Roll Into Quakes By MICHIKO KAKUTANI His writing is also concerned with many connections, disruptions and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fiction work is usually set in the Indian subcontinent and is said to combine magic realism with historical fiction. He is the author of Midnight’s Children, his second novel. Salman Rushdie is a British novelist and essayist. The story is a take on the myth of Orpheus. Their world is about to break and everything is going downhill for them in the real world. A childhood friend of Ormus, Rai, narrates their unusual and beautiful story. Ormus Cama, her lover, is most affected by this and is constantly looking for his love through music. Just when everything is going well for her, an earthquake claims her life. Vina Apsara is a famous singer and has a major fan following. After Vina’s death, Ormus is desperately looking for her through his life in music. This is the story of Vina Apsara and Ormus Cama.