![]() “Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary. “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 ![]() A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. ![]() Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. 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. One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Rushdie's fifth and best-known novel, as relevant as ever -the metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations of two men after their plane explodes in a hijacking over the English Channel. ![]() “ 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 ![]()
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