The Satanic Verses: A Novel
by Salman Rushdie
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Author: Salman RushdieEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-11
ISBN: 0812976711
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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- ISBN13: 9780812976717
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of The Satanic Verses: A Novel
Book Review: unforgetable
Summary: 5 Stars
one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. Language is beautiful. This is one of the books you will never forget. However, it will help know little hindi/urdu and references to Indian pop culture.
Summary of The Satanic Verses: A Novel
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.No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously 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 powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.
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