The Satanic Verses
The Booker-prize winning landmark work of literary fiction exploring migration, faith and identity
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3.4 • 74 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Salman Rushdie’s critically acclaimed magical realist novel explores good and evil, power and responsibility, exile and homecoming.
'A masterpiece' Sunday Times
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a plane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices.
Washed up, alive, on an English beach, their survival is a miracle. But there is a price to pay. Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen as opponents in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil. But chosen by whom? And which is which? And what will be the outcome of their final confrontation?
'A great novelist, a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett
‘A novel of metamorphosis, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles and jokes’ The Times
Customer Reviews
H5 DCH
Loved this book. One of those that needs re-reading again and again. Intriguing, enchanting and beguiling. Rushdie's style and prose is mesmeric.
The satanic verses is a terrible book...
I found it difficult to read such a badly written book and quite frankly found it difficult to even give it one star.
Not for me
Salman Rushdie has an imagination as vast as his intellect, but too great for a fella like me. To get the most out of this novel without a lot of hard work, you should know your Koran and at least something of the panoply of Asian mythology. I don’t and I lost heart as this great humorous fantastical tale could not draw me in.