The Satanic Verses: A Novel - Softcover

Rushdie, Salman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312270828 ISBN 13: 9780312270827

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2002

Synopsis

The explosion of a jetliner over India triggers an Apocalyptic battle that sweeps across the subcontinent. Reprint.

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Review:

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.

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312270828
• ISBN 13: 9780312270827
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 561