A hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. -- The Times (London).
Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb. -- The Guardian (London) A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles, and jokes. a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination. . . -- The New York Times Book Review Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary .
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.
A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times.
This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined.
Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil.
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.
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. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions.
Through the falling debris, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate, plummet from the sky, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.
A hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel
