The satanic verses - salman rushdie

A hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel.

Through the falling debris, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate, plummet from the sky, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.

#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 Rushdies 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).