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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... running in his mind's eye the entire relay from home to office desk, that improbable system by which two thousand dabbawallas delivered, each day, over one hundred thousand lunch-pails, and on a bad day, Spoono, maybe fifteen got ...
... running in his mind's eye the entire relay from home to office desk, that improbable system by which two thousand dabbawallas delivered, each day, over one hundred thousand lunch-pails, and on a bad day, Spoono, maybe fifteen got ...
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... running in the streets, flat out, yaar, with the trucks buses scooters cycles and what-all, one-two, one-two, lunch, lunch, the dabbas must get through, and in the monsoon running down the railway line when the train broke down, or ...
... running in the streets, flat out, yaar, with the trucks buses scooters cycles and what-all, one-two, one-two, lunch, lunch, the dabbas must get through, and in the monsoon running down the railway line when the train broke down, or ...
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... run faster, as though the greater labour would indicate the greater love. When he saw his father at night, the ... run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into ...
... run faster, as though the greater labour would indicate the greater love. When he saw his father at night, the ... run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into ...
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... running round like a mouse or so just stopped dead, middle of table, not a twitch, completely phutt, kaput. So, then, okay, I said, if you won't answer that try this one instead, and I came right out with it, Is there a Devil. After ...
... running round like a mouse or so just stopped dead, middle of table, not a twitch, completely phutt, kaput. So, then, okay, I said, if you won't answer that try this one instead, and I came right out with it, Is there a Devil. After ...
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... run high, for all Nasreen's attempts at mediation, you must apologize to your father, darling, poor man is suffering like the devil but his pride won't let him hug you. Even the ayah Kasturba and the old bearer Vallabh, her husband ...
... run high, for all Nasreen's attempts at mediation, you must apologize to your father, darling, poor man is suffering like the devil but his pride won't let him hug you. Even the ayah Kasturba and the old bearer Vallabh, her husband ...
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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