The Satanic Verses The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses

A Novel

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Publisher Description

#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)

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2008
March 11
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
576
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
9.3
MB

Customer Reviews

russllj ,

The Art of Being Reborn

"To be born again, first you have to die." That is the metaphor that runs throughout this book. Talk about religion and disrespecting others beliefs are irrelevant, because they have nothing to do with the content of this novel. This is a book about being reborn, about experiencing life new after excruciating difficulty. And about the misperceptions that others have about the innocent and the guilty.

If it's difficult to follow Rushdie's broken phrases and foreign idioms, slow down. There is beautiful wisdom in those segmented expressions. Jokes about sensationalism, raz-ma-taz, and the cultural significance of pop-stars aside, there is a deep undercurrent of emotional awareness and the truth of introspection. There is a pinch of the supernatural mixed with a heavy dose of brutal reality.

There are many who treat reading this book as an act of defiance against religious intolerance. The poor fools have bought into the popular-culture narrative. This is a book about self-awareness and the awakening that occurs when we relinquish dreams for reality.

guy7373915 ,

masterpiece

with his original writing style, rushdie has created a work so deeply realized and incredibly symbolic, especially for those to whom it relates...

Reader307 ,

What just happened???

Wow. I just read this entire book and I have no idea what happened.

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