The Satanic Verses: A Novel
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Synopsis:
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 fifteen 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. –Amazon.com
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Politics, Religion and Spirituality, Social Issues
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Original Publish Date:
September 14, 1988
Formats and associated ISBNs:
0312270828
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Hardcover Paperback
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