The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie
Penguin Publishing Group
9780670825370
0-670-82537-9

#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.

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its psychological truths.NewsdayWinner of the Whitbread PrizeOne 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 VersesRushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up wholegeographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.The New York Times Book ReviewExhilarating, 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 ofdescription, and we succumb.The Times (London)