The satanic verses / Salman Rushdie.
A hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur -Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples.
Record details
- ISBN: 0670825379
- ISBN: 9780670825370
- Physical Description: 546 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1989, c1988.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Angel Gibreel -- Mahound -- Ellowen Deeowen -- Ayesha -- City Visible but Unseen -- Return to Jahilia -- Angel Azraeel -- Parting of the Arabian Sea -- Wonderful Lamp. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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Subject: | Survival > Fiction. East Indians > England > Fiction. London (England) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Didactic fiction. |
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The Satanic Verses
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The Satanic Verses
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths."-- Newsday Winner of the Whitbread Prize One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times. Praise for The Satanic Verses "Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air." -- The New York Times Book Review "Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary . . . a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination." -- The Guardian (London) "A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles, and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb." -- The Times (London)