![]() ![]() “A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles, and jokes. ![]() a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination.” -The Guardian (London) “Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary. “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 In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.” -Newsday “ torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. “A staggering achievement, brilliantly enjoyable.” -Nadine Gordimer Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel 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. One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. ![]()
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