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The Satanic Verses:

A Novel
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Picador, Dec 1, 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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Finally, when all the controversy has died down, this book can finally be what it is, which is not that great. Rushdie's convoluted style allows him to get away with a lot. The worst? He's tries to ... Read full review

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What a bizarre read! I'm somewhat relieved to have reached the end of The Satanic Verses, but a tiny part of my heart is going to miss Spoono, Old Chumch! Rushdie did an excellent job of getting me to ... Read full review

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Satanic Verses. (c) 1989; New York: Viking; ISBN 0670825379 Buy it at amazon.com (In association with Amazon.com). Rushdie's most famous, or infamous, book. ...
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About the author (2000)

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).

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TitleThe Satanic Verses: A Novel
Bestselling Backlist
Owl book
AuthorSalman Rushdie
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherPicador, 2000
ISBN0312270828, 9780312270827
Length561 pages
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