One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, _The Satanic Verses_ is Salman Rushdieโs 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 Indi
The Satanic Verses: a Novel: novel
โ Scribed by Salman Rushdie
- Publisher
- Macmillan;Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2000;2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 376 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY: 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.
โฆ Subjects
a novel
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