The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Salman Rushdie
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1937-1997
- Setting: India, England, Mexico, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Ormus Cama, Vina Apsara, Umeed “Rai” Merchant
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, England or English people, India or East Indian people, Mexico or Mexicans, Disasters, Earthquakes, Natural disasters, Rock music
- Locales: United States, Mexico, England, India
One can imagine the dismay of readers who, having been enthralled by the prepublication excerpt of Salman Rushdie’s new novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, in the April 5, 1999 issue of The New Yorker, stumbled upon any of the several high-profile reviews, including that of the usually unerring Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, which had nothing good to say about this “decidedly disappointing” and “strangely hollow” book. How was one to account for the discrepancy between an excerpt which clearly shows Rushdie at the height of his powers and the...
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