The Satanic Verses (unabridged audiobook)
No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by The Satanic Verses. Furore aside, it is a marvellously erudite study of good and evil. The book begins with two Indians plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their airliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60% of the author's work and as low as 30% with characters and plotlines removed.
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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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- PublisherWhole Story Audiobooks
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1407440780
- ISBN 13 9781407440781
- BindingAudio CD
- Number of pages18
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