Description
Authors
Salman Rushdie
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New Release The Satanic Verses
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Binding
Paperback
Pages
560
Dimensions
129 x 198 x 35mm
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.
