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An edition of The Satanic Verses (1988)

The Satanic Verses

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.62 ·
  • 24 Ratings
  • 476 Want to read
  • 27 Currently reading
  • 40 Have read

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.

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Subjects
General & Literary Fiction, East Indians, Didactic fiction, literary fiction, families, Islam, Fiction, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Survival, open_syllabus_project, metamorphosis, death, Family, Description and travel, Travel, Fiction, general, India, fiction, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Criticism and interpretation, Islam in literature, Good and evil, English fiction, Roman de l'Inde de langue anglaise, Traductions françaises, Habiletés de survie, Romans, nouvelles, Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde), Hijacking of aircraft, Identity (Psychology), Airplane crash survival, Survie après accidents d'avion, General, Nicaragua, description and travel, Journeys
People
Mahound, Allāt, Uzza, Manāt, Gibreel Farishta, Saladin Chamcha, Allie Cone, the Devil, Karim Abu Simbel, Al-Lat, Alleluia Cone, Ayesha, Anahita Sufyan, Bilal, Death, Changez Chamchawala, Hamza, Hanif Johnson, Hind, Mishal, Shaitan
Places
India, England, London, Arabian Sea, Bombay, Brickhall, Everest, Yathrib, Spring of Zamzam

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De duivelsverzen
2010-06, Pandora
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The Satanic Verses
1997, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Los Versos Satanicos
1997 December, Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
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Les Versets sataniques
1990-06, France Loisirs
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The Satanic Verses
1989, Viking
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Les versets sataniques
1989, C. Bourgois
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The Satanic Verses
1989, Viking
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Die Satanischen Verse
1989, Artikel 19
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The Satanic Verses
1989, Viking
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1989, Viking
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Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1988

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823′.914
Library of Congress
PR6068.U757S27385 1997, PR6068.U757 S27 2008

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Format
Epub

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26448582M
ISBN 10
030778665X
ISBN 13
9780307786654
LCCN
97000795
OCLC/WorldCat
869813562
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B004KABDMA
Goodreads
40096000

Work Description

The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published September 26, 1988 and inspired in part by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. The title refers to the satanic verses, a group of Quranic verses that refer to three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Uzza, and Manāt. The part of the story that deals with the "satanic verses" was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari.

In the United Kingdom, The Satanic Verses received positive reviews, was a 1988 Booker Prize finalist (losing to Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda) and won the 1988 Whitbread Award for novel of the year.

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"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
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