The Ground beneath Her Feet

Famous singer Vina Aspara is caught up in an earthquake and is never seen again by human eyes. This is her story and that of Ormus Cama, who finds and loses her over and over again throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their romance is narrated by Rai, Ormus's friend and Vina's sometime lover. Around these three the world itself begins to tremble and break. "Lusty, sprawling, acid-high. With it, Rushdie enters a new rawness, a different madhouse, America." — The Washington Post Book World