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The Satanic Verses: A Novel

Salman Rushdie

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Completed on 16 August 2022
ISBN : 9780812976717

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s 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 Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel “A staggering achievement, brilliantly enjoyable.” —Nadine Gordimer “[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 “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) 

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Great book. The Satanic Verses, one of the most divisive and lauded books ever written, is Salman Rushdie's best-known and most inspiring work. The plot opens with a bang when a London-bound jet is bombed by terrorists while in midair. The story is set in a contemporary world that is both chaotic and full of marvels. Two Indian performers with conflicting moral perspectives collapse to the ground after being converted into living representations of good and evil. This is only the first act of a great voyage that skillfully combines the real and the fantastic. The Satanic Verses is a crucial work of our times, a novel whose significance is only surpassed by the calibre of its writing.

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