The Satanic Verses - Softcover

Rushdie, Salman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805053093 ISBN 13: 9780805053098

Publisher: Henry Holt, 1997

Synopsis

Gibreel Farishta, a legendary Indian film star, and Anglophile Saladin Chamcha both survive an airplane explosion over the English Channel, as they wash up on an English beach with some unexpected results. Reprint. 20,000 first printing."

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Review:

No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.

From the Inside Flap:

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two men -- Gibreel Farishta, the biggest movie star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years -- plummet from the sky. Washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, they proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations.

The Satanic Verses is a wonderfully erudite study of the evil and good entwined within the hearts of women and men, an epic journey of tears and laughter, served up by a writer at the height of his powers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805053093
• ISBN 13: 9780805053098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576