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Rushdie's controversial bestseller, which earned him a sentence of death from the Islamic hierarchy of Iran, is a magical realist fantasy that examines questions of identity and belief. Two survivors of an airplane crash, Saladin and Gibreel, are transformed from ordinary citizens and public figures into personifications of Good and Evil, complete with horns, haloes, and holy wars. Sardonic and bleak at the same time, THE SATANIC VERSES is a striking parable of faith and doubt in the postmodern world.
| Size | | Length: | 561 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Abudant in enchanting narratives and amazingly peopled, 'The Satanic Verses' is both a philosophy and an Arabian nights entertainment. What wit, what real warmth in Rushdies's thousand-eyed perceptions of the inferno within us and the vainglory of our aspirations! His ambitions are huge, and his creativity triumphantly matches them."
Nadine Gordimer
"A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising, jingles, and jokes...Rushdie has the power of description and we succumb."
Victoria Glendinning
"Talent? Not in question. Big talent. Ambition? Boundless ambition. Salman Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air....As a display of narrative energy and wealth of invention, 'The Satanic Verses' is impressive."
New York Times Book Review - A. G. Mojtabai (01/29/1989)
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