Bibliograph

The Satanic verses, Salman Rushdie

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The Satanic verses, Salman Rushdie

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The Satanic verses

Responsibility statement

Salman Rushdie

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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