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	CNN - 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' - April 15, 1999
		Her body was splayed out, naked and writhing, over a polished stone bearing the graven image of the snakebird Quetzalcoatl.
		She ended in the middle of the story of her life, she was an unfinished song abandoned at the bridge, deprived of the right to follow her life's verses to their final, fulfilling rhyme.
		Her lawyers had terminated the encounter at that point, but afterwards she looked stretched, unstable, too bright, as if she were on the point of flying apart like an exploding lightbulb, like a supernova, like the universe.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9904/the.ground (4675 words)

	Tata Group \| Careers \| What we offer \| Tata Voices \| The ground beneath her feet
		Her childhood was replete with dreams of a life that would take her outside the borders, literal and figurative, of her village in Uttar Kashi in what is now Uttaranchal.
		Her elder brother, a champion sportsperson at the district level, was impressed by his sibling's drive.
		Fate soon smiled on her again in the form of a laudatory letter from her school principal, exhorting her parents to allow the diligent and bright student to go further.
	www.tata.com /0_careers/what_we_offer/tata_voices/20040809_pal.htm (1430 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
		In his wildly inventive new novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie offers up a modern tale set in the international firmament of pop music.
		As her constant friend and sometimes lover, he becomes the somewhat unwilling Boswell for her and for Ormus Cama, a giant of musical talent and the love of Vina's life.
		Indeed, throughout The Ground Beneath Her Feet, there is a startling juxtaposition of opposites: English v.
	www.bookpage.com /9904bp/fiction/ground_beneath_feet.html (402 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: Books: Salman Rushdie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Ground Beneath Her Feet sees Rushdie one again pillaging the founding myths and stories of East and West from which he creates an astonishing parable of the ways in which, as the title itself suggests, even the ground beneath our feet is not as stable as we might like to think.
		The Ground Beneath Her Feet finds Rushdie at the height of his powers, exploring love, loss, migration, displacement and the seismic effects of cultural difference.
		This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Ground-Beneath-Her-Feet/dp/0099766019 (1887 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: Books: Salman Rushdie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The ground shifts repeatedly beneath the reader's feet during the course of Salman Rushdie's sixth novel, a riff on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in the high-octane world of rock & roll.
		Narrated by Rai Merchant, a childhood friend of both Vina and Ormus, The Ground Beneath Her Feet begins with a terrible earthquake in 1989 that swallows Vina whole, then moves back in time to chronicle the tangled histories of all the main characters and a host of minor ones as well.
		At first Vina is underage, and Ormus swears not to touch her until she turns 16; then, after one night of love, she disappears for a decade, returning only to rescue Ormus from a near fatal coma.
	www.amazon.ca /Ground-Beneath-Her-Feet/dp/0676972640 (1528 words)

	Books: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
		The Ground Beneath Her Feet opens on the morning of Vina Apsara's imminent death in an earthquake in Mexico on Valentine's Day, 1989.
		At 44, Vina is not a princess but an established rock goddess, notorious for her attitude, her independence, promiscuity and flakiness.
		The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie, Knopf, hc, 575pp, $34.95
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1999/042999/book.html (628 words)

	IndiaStar Review of Books: Salman Rushdie's "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" reviewed by C.J.S. Wallia
		Rushdie's new novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with its 575 tiresome pages, confirms the earlier critique; moreover, it spreads ample new ground beneath his feet to trod while he assails the reader with massive verbiage straining to be comic.
		After spending her troublesome early childhood in the USA and becoming gruesomely orphaned at age 12, she goes to live in Bombay with the family of the narrator, Rai Merchant.
		A quadruple assassination, by Sikh bodyguards, has resulted in the deaths of Indira Gandhi, both her sons, and...." This false assertion (Indira Gandhi's younger son Sanjiv had died in a plane crash four years earlier; Rajiv, the elder son, was almost immediately sworn in as prime minister) typifies trickery that Rushdie uses repeatedly.
	www.indiastar.com /wallia20.html (1100 words)

	The Ground Beneath Her Feet \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		That certainly explains how his Madonna-like pop star has attained international fame despite her Eastern origin: Most Indian pop music is terrible bubblegum, so it is with perverse joy that Rushdie bends the rules of rock to suit his purposes.
		Like his classic Midnight's Children, The Ground Beneath Her Feet uses an almost cubist approach to narrative: Its voice, a photographer named Rai Merchant, struggles to reconcile flashback and forward-motion, resulting in a story that takes two steps back for every step forward.
		The rambling, restless prose is an indulgent Rushdie trademark, as is the frequent invasion of magical realism, but for the most part, The Ground Beneath Her Feet remains an accessible read that rewards patience.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/19708 (398 words)

	'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' by Salman Rushdie
		Although those stylistic elements are certainly present in “The Ground Beneath Her Feet,” with the discomforting effects I mentioned earlier, this new novel presents Rushdie’s most compelling and coherent story to date.
		Her Greek-American mother kills all of her children except Vina and hangs herself.
		“The Ground Beneath Her Feet” captures all of this.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19990711review283.asp (851 words)

	The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a novel written by Salman Rushdie.
		Published in 2000, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth with rock music replacing Orpheus' lyre.
		"The Ground Beneath Her Feet" is also the title of a song written as a collaboration between Rushdie and Irish rock band U2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Ground_Beneath_Her_Feet (474 words)

	Bouncing down to the underworld: classical katabasis in The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Critical Essay Twentieth Century ...
		Thus, while Calvino the metabasist breaks new ground with every work, Rushdie the katabasist repeatedly mines the same site--the ground beneath, rather than the ground ahead--for different discoveries.
		This preoccupation is nowhere more evident than in his recent novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
		My own impression of the "felt shape of a human life" in The Ground Beneath Her Feet is of a sequence of explosions and implosions, of expansions into the world and contractions into the self, which gradually acquire the diastolic-systolic momentum of a heartbeat.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_4_47/ai_91653348 (960 words)

	The Ground beneath her Feet - Salman Rushdie
		The dismal sales figures of The Ground beneath her Feet, which barely cracked an American bestseller list, suggest that Rushdie's pop stardom is no longer in the ascendant.
		The near-deification of Vina does not wholly convince, and neither does her reappearance in younger guise (though Rushdie does some nice things with that character).
		The Ground beneath her Feet displays his talents, but it also points a glaring spotlight on his weaknesses (verbosity, pomposity, lack of focus, to name just a few).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/rushdies/ground.htm (2855 words)

	The Ground Beneath Her Feet — Infoplease.com
		After her untimely demise the book recounts what happened before, circling around Vina's fated relationship with lover/band-member Ormus Cama, as staged before a swirling backdrop of Bombay, London, and New York.
		The dead beneath our feet: Nicholas Orme considers how the crowded cities of medieval England dealt with the death and burial of their......
		Evidence beneath your feet: electrostatic dust lifting collects hidden evidence at the crime scene.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0777461.html (446 words)

	The ground beneath their feet - Sepia Mutiny
		… In my last photograph of Vina the ground beneath her feet is cracked like a crazy paving and there’s liquid everywhere, She’s standing on a slab of street that’s tilting to the right; she’s bending left to compensate.
		Her arms are spread wide, her hair’s flying, the expression on her face is somewhere between anger and fear.
		Behind her the world is out of focus.
	www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/002833.html (800 words)

	International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
		If rock 'n' roll is America's gift to the whole world, then 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' is Salman Rushdie's gift to America in return: a great contemporary love story and a dazzling, dancing vision of the modern era, which pulsates with a half century of music.
		This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music: the story of a love that extends across their entire lives, and even beyond death.
		It is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humour and love, is perhaps the book's true hero.
	www.impacdublinaward.ie /2001/groundbeneathherfeet.htm (476 words)

	The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie - Reviewed by Ann Skea - Eclectica Magazine v3n4
		It is a book about a world which is as solid as the ground beneath your feet.
		Her musician lover, Ormus Cama, meets, loses, finds and loses her again and again, as Umeed, who is also Rai (the Prince, Vima's pet name for him since childhood), tells their story.
		And since the title of this book is, _The Ground Beneath Her Feet_, I will leave you with this randomly selected quotation, which is rather longer but gives you some idea of Umeed's allusive, shifting (shifty?) style:
	www.eclectica.org /v3n4/skea_rushdie.html (599 words)

	Review \| The Ground Beneath Her Feet
		The story centers on Vina Apsara and her lover Ormus Cama, a pair who have brought almost unthinkable influence and change to western music: to rock and roll.
		Here Rushdie begins a series of changes in voice, tense and point of view that tear at any sense of complacency the reader might have had and -- indeed -- moves the ground beneath our literary feet.
		But for clear shots of insight into the human condition and the universe as it might be, Rushdie always moves the ground beneath our feet.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/beneathher.html (889 words)

	NPR : 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' by Salman Rushdie (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		NPR : 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' by Salman Rushdie (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
		NPR.org, June 15, 2006 · "Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a great (but not easy) read.
		The book tells the story of three young people from India who ride the wave of the rock 'n' roll industry in the 20th century.
	www.npr.org.cob-web.org:8888 /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5489416 (263 words)

	Ground Beneath Her Feet, The - Salman Rushdie
		His first novel to be set largely in the United States, it's a celebration of Americana, a brilliant examination of what the world means to America, and what America means to the world.
		Around these three the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break: cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real.
		The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, and a brilliant remaking of the Orpheus myth.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/0787119172.html (309 words)

	Salman Rushdie - 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet'
		The greatest, finest, most eloquent novel ever written about rock and roll gods, “The ground beneath her feet” is exciting and thrilling, but also philosophical and condensed in content and meaning.
		The mere call of one lover to the other is powerful enough to bring that other back from the abyssal depths of despair and near-death.
		What the novel ultimately aims to express are the fragility of this world, the relativity of reality, and the ground constantly moving beneath our feet.
	bookreviews.nabou.com /reviews/groundbeneathherfeet.html (809 words)

	The Ground Beneath Her Feet (0312254997) RUSHDIE -
		In this remaking of the myth of Orpheus, Rushdie tells the story of Vina Apsara, a pop star, and Ormus Cama, an extraordinary songwriter and musician, who captivate and change the world through their music and their romance.
		In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife.
		Salman Rushdie is the author of six novels: Grimus, Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, and one work of short stories titled East, West.
	www.picadorusa.com /product/product.aspx?isbn=0312254997 (466 words)

	Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Written on a scale of epic, even immortal, proportions, The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a story of love, death and rock 'n' roll.
		The author keeps the story gritty and real while imbuing it with a sense of the mystic and of an otherness that is believable and in no way alien to the reader.
		Recounted by the photographer Rai, The Ground Beneath Her Feet is the story of Vina Apsara and Ormus Cama, 20th century rock stars and pop icons.
	www.rambles.net /rushdie_ground.html (446 words)

	The Ground Beneath Her Feet
		Forget for a moment Rushdie's status as a best-seller (it is, after all, only a function of his accidental celebrity).
		I expect few people will finish The Ground Beneath Her Feet except to write a term paper or article on it, and, even then, there will be some who fudge.
		Schoolroom novelists write to be talked about, not to be read.
	www.goodreports.net /reviews/thegroundbeneathherfeet.htm (547 words)

	..:: U2 Discography - The Ground Beneath Her Feet Promo Single - U2 Wanderer.org ::.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The song was written by Salman Rushdie for his book, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet".
		U2 recorded the song for possible inclusion for their album due in the fall of 2000, but the song was given to the soundtrack album instead.
		The Ground Beneath Her Feet was released as a promotional single only.
	www.u2wanderer.org /disco/pr125.html (366 words)

	Book reviews of The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie.
		excerpt from The Ground Beneath Her Feet and a biography of Salman Rushdie.
		The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece.
		Ultimately, The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a triumphant hymn to the transforming power of love, boldly asserting that fate is only a fiction and that you can sometimes strengthen history by speculating on its alternative outcome.
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=415 (756 words)

	The Ground Beneath Her Feet Summary
		Salman Rushdie embodies in his own life and in his writings the conundrums of the postcolonial author, writing within the tradition of Indo-English literature while simultaneously appealing to the conventions and tastes of a worldwide, especially Western...
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