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No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses", which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.
| ISBN | 0963270702 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780963270702
(What's this?) | | Pages | 560 | | Publisher | Consortium Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 372 | | Imprint | Consortium Inc | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 01 May 1994 | | Width (mm) | 132 | | Library of Congress | PR6068.U75 | | Spine width (mm) | 35 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General |
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