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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... window , sits upright with her back to the wall , dead . Mahound in the grip of his misery keeps himself to himself , hardly says a word for weeks . The Grandee of Jahilia institutes a policy of persecution that advances too slowly for ...
... window , sits upright with her back to the wall , dead . Mahound in the grip of his misery keeps himself to himself , hardly says a word for weeks . The Grandee of Jahilia institutes a policy of persecution that advances too slowly for ...
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... window , staring towards London , with his chest thumping and his hat jammed down on his head . He was trying to come to terms with the undeniable fact of the halo , and failing to do so , because what with the derangement of John ...
... window , staring towards London , with his chest thumping and his hat jammed down on his head . He was trying to come to terms with the undeniable fact of the halo , and failing to do so , because what with the derangement of John ...
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... window Mishal was pointing out some of the Street's characters , - there , a Sikh ancient shocked by a racial attack into complete silence ; he had not spoken , it was said , for nigh on seven years , before which he had been one of the ...
... window Mishal was pointing out some of the Street's characters , - there , a Sikh ancient shocked by a racial attack into complete silence ; he had not spoken , it was said , for nigh on seven years , before which he had been one of the ...
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