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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... fall , I knew , but he would fall with me . So I went on with my devilment , changing verses , until one day I read my lines to him and saw him frown and shake his head as if to clear his mind , and then nod his approval slowly , but ...
... fall , I knew , but he would fall with me . So I went on with my devilment , changing verses , until one day I read my lines to him and saw him frown and shake his head as if to clear his mind , and then nod his approval slowly , but ...
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... fall revealed to him the hollowness of a life in which the only true love had been felt for a lump of stone that couldn't fight back . When the first , sharp edge of grief had been dulled , Baal became convinced that Al - Lat's fall ...
... fall revealed to him the hollowness of a life in which the only true love had been felt for a lump of stone that couldn't fight back . When the first , sharp edge of grief had been dulled , Baal became convinced that Al - Lat's fall ...
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... fall , arrest in which the secrets of the self were utterly exposed ? - Well , then . Are we coming closer to it ? Should we even say that these are two fundamentally different types of self ? Might we not agree that Gibreel , for all ...
... fall , arrest in which the secrets of the self were utterly exposed ? - Well , then . Are we coming closer to it ? Should we even say that these are two fundamentally different types of self ? Might we not agree that Gibreel , for all ...
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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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