The Satanic verses : a novel / Salman Rushdie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008.Description: 561 pages: portrait; 21 cmContent type:
  • text txt|2rdacontent.
Media type:
  • unmediated n|2rdamedia.
Carrier type:
  • volume nc|2rdacarrier.
ISBN:
  • 9780812976717
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 823.914 R95s 2008
Contents:
A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibreel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur -Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined.
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A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibreel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur -Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined.

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