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Title: Satanic Verses, the
Author: RUSHDIE SALMAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 06/03/1998
Imprint: VINTAGE UK
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9780963270702
Weight: 372gr
Dimension: 198mm X 132mm
Edition: 1