The Satanic Verses: A Novel

Salman Rushdie

Macmillan, 2000 - Fiction - 561 pages

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.

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User Review  - msemmag - LibraryThing

TL;DR: I liked this book, but it's not exactly a pleasure read. That being said... This book is a behemoth: both in size as well as in density of content. It's not a book that will please every reader ...

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User Review  - charlie68 - LibraryThing

A interesting book, with plenty of thoughts to ponder.

Contents

• Mahound: 91
• Ellowen Deeowen: 131
• Ayesha: 209
• A City Visible but Unseen: 249
• Return to Jahilia: 369
• The Angel Azraeel: 409
• The Parting of the Arabian Sea: 485
• A Wonderful Lamp: 523

About the author

Salman Rushdie is the author of six novels: Grimus, Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, and one work of short stories titled East, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction: The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz, and Mirrorwork (co-edited with Elizabeth West).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Satanic Verses: A Novel; Bestselling Backlist; Owl book
• Author: Salman Rushdie
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2000
• ISBN: 0312270828, 9780312270827
• Length: 561 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General