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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... kind of empire in the liquid waste or air, yet this is certainly part of his punishment, that he is ... without any fixed place, or space, allowed him to rest the sole of his foot upon. Daniel Defoe, The History of the Devil V A City ...
... kind of empire in the liquid waste or air, yet this is certainly part of his punishment, that he is ... without any fixed place, or space, allowed him to rest the sole of his foot upon. Daniel Defoe, The History of the Devil V A City ...
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... kind of parties frequented by convent girls known as 'firecrackers' because of their readiness to go off with a bang. After Hanuman there was no stopping Gibreel, and his phenomenal success deepened his belief in a guardian angel. But ...
... kind of parties frequented by convent girls known as 'firecrackers' because of their readiness to go off with a bang. After Hanuman there was no stopping Gibreel, and his phenomenal success deepened his belief in a guardian angel. But ...
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... kind of alert contempt. Mr Saladin Chamcha had constructed this face with care – it had taken him several years to get it just right – and for many more years now he had thought of it simply as his own – indeed, he had forgotten what he ...
... kind of alert contempt. Mr Saladin Chamcha had constructed this face with care – it had taken him several years to get it just right – and for many more years now he had thought of it simply as his own – indeed, he had forgotten what he ...
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... kind, then his own kind can feel nothing but scorn for him. What is he? A fauntleroy, a grand panjandrum? Is this my fate: to lose a son and find a freak?' 'Whatever I am, father dear,' Saladin told the older man, 'I owe it all to you ...
... kind, then his own kind can feel nothing but scorn for him. What is he? A fauntleroy, a grand panjandrum? Is this my fate: to lose a son and find a freak?' 'Whatever I am, father dear,' Saladin told the older man, 'I owe it all to you ...
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... kind of defiance, that she would not cancel her Friday parties, 'to show that Hindus-Muslims can love as well as hate,' she pointed out. Changez saw a look in her eyes and did not attempt to argue, but set the servants to putting ...
... kind of defiance, that she would not cancel her Friday parties, 'to show that Hindus-Muslims can love as well as hate,' she pointed out. Changez saw a look in her eyes and did not attempt to argue, but set the servants to putting ...
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