The Satanic VersesPenguin Publishing Group, 22.02.1989 - 560 Seiten #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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... began in the very centre of his body and spread outwards , turning his blood to iron , changing his flesh to steel , except that it also felt like a fist that enveloped him from outside , holding him in a way that was both unbearably ...
... began in the very centre of his body and spread outwards , turning his blood to iron , changing his flesh to steel , except that it also felt like a fist that enveloped him from outside , holding him in a way that was both unbearably ...
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... began to batter at the glass . At once a latticework of blood oozed up through the cracked surface of the stranger's body , and when Chamcha tried to pick off the broken shards the other began to scream , because chunks of his flesh ...
... began to batter at the glass . At once a latticework of blood oozed up through the cracked surface of the stranger's body , and when Chamcha tried to pick off the broken shards the other began to scream , because chunks of his flesh ...
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... began to comprehend the size of the step he'd taken when he left behind what was clearly second nature to him , and ... began to force separations upon them , he began to be possessed , once again , by that irrational , out - of ...
... began to comprehend the size of the step he'd taken when he left behind what was clearly second nature to him , and ... began to force separations upon them , he began to be possessed , once again , by that irrational , out - of ...
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Abu Simbel Akhtar Al-Lat Alleluia Alleluia Cone Allie Anahita angel archangel arms asked Ayesha Baal baby bastard began beneath Bilal bloody body Bombay Brickhall butterflies Changez Chamchawala cried damn dead death devil dream Everest eyes face father feel feet fell felt fucking Gibreel Farishta girl Grandee hair Hamza hand Hanif head heard heart hell Hind Imam Jahilia Jumpy Kasturba Khalid living London look Mahound manticore Maslama Mimi Mirza Saeed Mishal mouth movie Nasreen never night once Osman Pamela pilgrims Prophet Qureishi Rekha Rosa Saeed Akhtar Saladin Chamcha Salahuddin Salman Salman the Persian Sarpanch Shaandaar Shaitan shouted Sisodia sleep smile Spoono Srinivas stood street Sufyan tell thing thought Titlipur told turned Uzza Valance verses village voice walking wanted watched wife window woman women Yathrib young zamindar Zamzam Zeeny
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