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The Satanic Verses
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ISBN10: 0670825379
ISBN13: 9780670825370
Publisher: Viking
Published: Feb 22 1989
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.89
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780670825370
Publisher: Viking
Published: Feb 22 1989
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.89
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
#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)
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