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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... offered in mitigation ... Chamcha, clutching his legs, made an uncomprehending query: 'What the hell?' 'You don't see her?' Gibreel shouted. 'You don't see her goddamn Bokhara rug?' No, no, Gibbo, her voice whispered in his ears, don't ...
... offered in mitigation ... Chamcha, clutching his legs, made an uncomprehending query: 'What the hell?' 'You don't see her?' Gibreel shouted. 'You don't see her goddamn Bokhara rug?' No, no, Gibbo, her voice whispered in his ears, don't ...
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... offered up a spiteful farewell before an audience of sound recordists and electricians smoking their cynical beedis. Attended by a dumbly distressed ayah, all elbows, Pimple attempted scorn. 'God, what a stroke of luck, for Pete's sake ...
... offered up a spiteful farewell before an audience of sound recordists and electricians smoking their cynical beedis. Attended by a dumbly distressed ayah, all elbows, Pimple attempted scorn. 'God, what a stroke of luck, for Pete's sake ...
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... offered the world his blunt testimony. 'I was walking, here here, in the compound only, when there came a thud, tharaap. I turned. It was the body of the oldest daughter. Her skull was completely crushed. I looked up and saw the boy ...
... offered the world his blunt testimony. 'I was walking, here here, in the compound only, when there came a thud, tharaap. I turned. It was the body of the oldest daughter. Her skull was completely crushed. I looked up and saw the boy ...
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... offered, as a neighbour and businesswoman, to show him her carpets and antiques. Her husband was at a world-wide congress of ball-bearings manufacturers in Gothenburg, Sweden, and in his absence she invited Gibreel into her apartment of ...
... offered, as a neighbour and businesswoman, to show him her carpets and antiques. Her husband was at a world-wide congress of ball-bearings manufacturers in Gothenburg, Sweden, and in his absence she invited Gibreel into her apartment of ...
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... offered him an English education, to get me out of the way, he thought, otherwise why, it's obvious, but don't look a gift horse andsoforth, his mother Nasreen Chamchawala refused to cry, and volunteered, instead, the benefit of her ...
... offered him an English education, to get me out of the way, he thought, otherwise why, it's obvious, but don't look a gift horse andsoforth, his mother Nasreen Chamchawala refused to cry, and volunteered, instead, the benefit of her ...
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