The Satanic Verses: A NovelRandom House Publishing Group, 23.02.2011 - 576 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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... Changez Chamchawala was a big man, a giant even, to say nothing of his wealth and public standing, he still always had the lightness of foot and also the inclination to sneak up behind his son and spoil whatever he was doing, whipping ...
... Changez Chamchawala was a big man, a giant even, to say nothing of his wealth and public standing, he still always had the lightness of foot and also the inclination to sneak up behind his son and spoil whatever he was doing, whipping ...
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... Changez Chamchawala's teak-lined study, beside a ten-volume set of the Richard Burton translation of the Arabian Nights, which was being slowly devoured by mildew and bookworm owing to the deep-seated prejudice against books which led ...
... Changez Chamchawala's teak-lined study, beside a ten-volume set of the Richard Burton translation of the Arabian Nights, which was being slowly devoured by mildew and bookworm owing to the deep-seated prejudice against books which led ...
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... Changez Chamchawala; below him, home and beauty. Like Nasreen, the future Saladin had never found it easy to cry. On that first aeroplane he read science fiction tales of interplanetary migration: Asimov's Foundation, Ray Bradbury's ...
... Changez Chamchawala; below him, home and beauty. Like Nasreen, the future Saladin had never found it easy to cry. On that first aeroplane he read science fiction tales of interplanetary migration: Asimov's Foundation, Ray Bradbury's ...
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... Changez Chamchawala did when the aeroplane took off: trying not to let his son see him doing it, he crossed two pairs of fingers on each hand, and rotated both his thumbs. And when they were installed in a hotel within a few feet of the ...
... Changez Chamchawala did when the aeroplane took off: trying not to let his son see him doing it, he crossed two pairs of fingers on each hand, and rotated both his thumbs. And when they were installed in a hotel within a few feet of the ...
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... Changez Chamchawala's little traps. Salahuddin had been deceived by these all his life. Whenever his father wanted to punish him, he would offer him a present, a bar of imported chocolate or a tin of Kraft cheese, and would then grab ...
... Changez Chamchawala's little traps. Salahuddin had been deceived by these all his life. Whenever his father wanted to punish him, he would offer him a present, a bar of imported chocolate or a tin of Kraft cheese, and would then grab ...
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Abu Simbel Al-Lat Alleluia Alleluia Cone Allie Allie’s Anahita angel archangel arms asked Ayesha Baal bastard began beneath Bilal bloody body Bombay Brickhall butterflies Changez Chamchawala cried damn dead death devil didn’t dream Everest eyes face father feel feet fell felt fucking Gibreel Farishta girl God’s Grandee hair Hamza hand Hanif head heard heart Hind Imam Jahilia Jumpy Kasturba Khalid London look Mahound man’s manticore Maslama Mimi Mirza Saeed Mishal mother mouth movie Nasreen never night once Osman Pamela pilgrims Prophet Qureishi Rekha Rosa Saeed Akhtar Saladin Chamcha Salahuddin Salman Salman the Persian Sarpanch Satanic Verses Shaandaar Shaitan shouted Sisodia sleep Spoono Srinivas stood street Sufyan tell there’s thing thought Titlipur told turned Uzza verses village voice walking wanted watched What’s wife woman women Yathrib you’re young zamindar Zeeny