The satanic verses /
Material type: TextPublication details: London. : Vintage Books, 1988.Description: 546 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 0963270702
- 9780963270702
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Botho University Botswana Open Shelves | Fiction | Available | BULIB27143 |
No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations.
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