The Satanic Verses: A Novel

The Satanic Verses: A Novel

<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b> • <b>“[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."-<i>Newsday</i></b><br><br><b>Winner of the Whitbread Prize</b><br><br>One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, <i>The Satanic Verses</i> 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, <i>The Satanic Verses </i>is a key work of our times.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>The Satanic Verses<br><br></i></b>“Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air."<b>-<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br></b><br>“Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary . . . a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination."<b>-<i>The Guardian</i> (London)<br></b><br>“A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles, and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb."<b>-<i>The Times</i> (London)</b>