Shalimar the Clown

I've finished Janet Frame's book and have moved on to Rushdie. I'm not sure how Shalimar the Clown made it onto my reading list, but I wonder if it's coming out as a movie sometime in the near future? I sometimes put such books on my reading list, and I sometimes find out a book that I've read will soon be or is planned to be a movie, such as Shantaram, which I very much enjoyed reading, in spite of myself and in spite of my lack of interest in India, and in spite of my boycott of Travelocity because their customer service is nothing but Indian or Pakistani, and incredibly frustrating.

Shalimar is not as absorbing as Shantaram, but still a lovely tale and well told nonetheless. Ever since my (recent) exposure to Nabokov, my sensitivity to wordplay is up, and there are a few examples of good wordplay in Rushdie's book.

I'll add more later about the book, but for now, I'll only say I love the part about the difficulty having a Hindi and Muslim wedding, in specific terms to bring it home to the reader, to help the reader understand. There was a bit earlier that I wanted to blockquote but I'll have to see if I can find it, it was about the first girl character, India, and her growing up with bad dreams and sleeptalking.