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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... eyes only, maybe you are going crazy, what do you think, you namaqool, you piece of pig excrement, my love. With death comes honesty, my beloved, so I can call you by your true names. Cloudy Rekha murmured sour nothings, but Gibreel ...
... eyes only, maybe you are going crazy, what do you think, you namaqool, you piece of pig excrement, my love. With death comes honesty, my beloved, so I can call you by your true names. Cloudy Rekha murmured sour nothings, but Gibreel ...
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... Happy birthday, mister; happy birthday to you.' Whereupon Saladin Chamcha coughed, spluttered, opened his eyes, and, as befitted a new-born babe, burst into foolish tears. 2 R eincarnation years the biggest was always star in.
... Happy birthday, mister; happy birthday to you.' Whereupon Saladin Chamcha coughed, spluttered, opened his eyes, and, as befitted a new-born babe, burst into foolish tears. 2 R eincarnation years the biggest was always star in.
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... eyes away from her because she was falling and it was not respectful to look up inside her clothes.' Rekha and her children fell from Everest; no survivors. The whispers blamed Gibreel. Let's leave it at that for the moment. Oh: don't ...
... eyes away from her because she was falling and it was not respectful to look up inside her clothes.' Rekha and her children fell from Everest; no survivors. The whispers blamed Gibreel. Let's leave it at that for the moment. Oh: don't ...
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... eyes. Outside the picture palaces of Bombay, mammoth cardboard effigies of Gibreel were seen to decay and list ... eye, a hollowness. At last his images simply faded off the printed page, so that the shiny covers of Celebrity and Society ...
... eyes. Outside the picture palaces of Bombay, mammoth cardboard effigies of Gibreel were seen to decay and list ... eye, a hollowness. At last his images simply faded off the printed page, so that the shiny covers of Celebrity and Society ...
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... eyes and ears, we never went to any policia, we looked after our own. At night father and son would return exhausted to their shack by the airport runway at Santacruz and when Ismail's mother saw him approaching, illuminated by the ...
... eyes and ears, we never went to any policia, we looked after our own. At night father and son would return exhausted to their shack by the airport runway at Santacruz and when Ismail's mother saw him approaching, illuminated by the ...
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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