Shame | Characters
As in Midnight's Children, Shame contains a gallery of fantastic, even bizarre characters, the most striking being Sufiya Zinobia. Made to blush at her birth by the disappointment of her father at the birth of a daughter, infected with brain fever at the age of two, married off to a man who does not care about her, confined to an attic to prevent her from walking the streets, and eventually transformed into the fiery, ravening beast of shame, Sufiya retains our sympathy throughout her strange, troubled story. Shakil, her husband, always at the edge of things, clearly embodies...
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