CentralNotice Shalimar the Clown From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Shalimar the Clown First edition Author Salman Rushdie Country United Kingdom Language English Publisher Jonathan Cape Publication date 6 September 2005 Media type Print (hardback) Pages 398 pp. (first edition, hardback) Awards Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2005), Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction (2005) ISBN 978-0224077842 OCLC 61855166 Preceded by Fury Followed by The Enchantress of Florence Shalimar the Clown is a 2005 novel by Salman Rushdie . [1] [2] [3] [4] The novel took 4 years for Rushdie to write, [5] and was initially published on 6 September 2005 by Jonathan Cape . Shalimar the Clown derives its name from Shalimar Gardens , in the vicinity of Srinagar . Srinagar is one of several Mughal ...