The Satanic Verses: A NovelJust 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 - steve02476 - LibraryThingVery complicated, took maybe 200 pages before I felt like I was even beginning to get the general situation. The sentences were beautiful, a lovely writer. Very challenging book, an incredible amount of detail and I feel like 90% of it whizzed past my head. Read full review
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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 | 485 |
A Wonderful Lamp | 523 |
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Allie angel answered arms arrived asked Ayesha Baal become began begin believe beneath bloody body called Chamcha Changez closed coming damn dead death don't door dream English eyes face fall father feel feet fell felt followed Gibreel Gibreel Farishta girl give hair hand happened head heard heart human it's Jahilia Jumpy kind knew leave light living London look lost Mahound mean Mirza Saeed Mishal mother mouth move movie never night offered once Pamela person remained running Saladin Chamcha Salahuddin seemed shouted side sitting sleep speak standing stood story street tell thing thought told took turned village voice waiting walking wanted watched wife woman women young
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| 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 |
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