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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... windows. The agitation of the producers was easy to understand, because in those days of declining audiences and the creation of historical soap operas and contemporary crusading housewives by the television network, there was but a ...
... windows. The agitation of the producers was easy to understand, because in those days of declining audiences and the creation of historical soap operas and contemporary crusading housewives by the television network, there was but a ...
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... window seat watching the city of his birth fall away from him like old snakeskin allowed a relieved expression to pass briefly across his face. This face was handsome in a somewhat sour, patrician fashion, with long, thick, downturned ...
... window seat watching the city of his birth fall away from him like old snakeskin allowed a relieved expression to pass briefly across his face. This face was handsome in a somewhat sour, patrician fashion, with long, thick, downturned ...
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... window to discover that there, below him, was – not Bombay – but Proper London itself, Bigben Nelsons-column Lordstavern Bloodytower Queen. But as he floated out over the great metropolis he felt himself beginning to lose height, and no ...
... window to discover that there, below him, was – not Bombay – but Proper London itself, Bigben Nelsons-column Lordstavern Bloodytower Queen. But as he floated out over the great metropolis he felt himself beginning to lose height, and no ...
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... window, turning slowly on their spits. When he brought the chicken into the hotel lobby he became embarrassed, not wanting the staff to see, so he stuffed it inside double-breasted serge and went up in the lift reeking of spit-roast ...
... window, turning slowly on their spits. When he brought the chicken into the hotel lobby he became embarrassed, not wanting the staff to see, so he stuffed it inside double-breasted serge and went up in the lift reeking of spit-roast ...
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... windows instead. That night, for the last time, Saladin Chamchawala played his old role of doorman, dressed up in an English dinner-jacket, and when the guests – the same old guests, dusted with the grey powders of age but otherwise the ...
... windows instead. That night, for the last time, Saladin Chamchawala played his old role of doorman, dressed up in an English dinner-jacket, and when the guests – the same old guests, dusted with the grey powders of age but otherwise 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