The Satanic Verses - Hardcover
When a jumbo jet blows apart above the English Channel, Gabreel and Saladin are two who survive and are washed up on an English beach. However, it soon becomes clear that curious changes have come over them and that they have been chosen as protagonists in the eternal struggle between God and the Devil. Salman Rushdie is the author of "Midnight's Children", winner of the 1981 Booker Prize, and "Shame".
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No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a fatwa from Iran's Ayatollahs decreeing his death. Furore aside, it is a marvellously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's astonishing powers of invention are at their best in this Whitbread Prize winner.
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A great novelist, a master of perpetual storytelling. --V S Pritchett
A rollercoaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination. --The Guardian
A masterpiece. --The Sunday Times
A rollercoaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination. --The Guardian
A masterpiece. --The Sunday Times
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0670827045
- ISBN 13 9780670827046
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages560
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