THE SATANIC VERSES [Signed]

Rushdie, Salman

ISBN 10: 0670825379 / ISBN 13: 9780670825370

Published by Viking, London, 1988

About this Item

Octavo, 547 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine blue with gold and red lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "£12.95." Mild rubbing to edges of dust jacket, primarily at corners and at head and tail of spine. General shelf wear to book spine and boards, with mild bumping to top corners. Foxing to edges of textblock. Age toning throughout textblock. Signed flat by Rushdie on title page. DL Consignment. Shelved in Case 7. Inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammed, "The Satanic Verses" incited a great deal of backlash upon release due to its perceived blasphemy. Then Supreme Leader of Iran Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Rushdie and the publishers, leading to a number of bombings, killings, attempted killings, and riots. The British government provided round-the-clock protection for Rushdie, and though Rushdie eventually came out of hiding, the fatwa remains in place. Rushdie was attacked on August 12, 2022, losing sight in his right eye and the use of one hand. Winner of the 1988 Whitbread Award for novel of the year and 1988 Booker Prize finalist. 1393057. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1393057

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE SATANIC VERSES [Signed]

Publisher: Viking, London

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

#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)

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.