The Satanic Verses
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels in the twentieth century have ignited as much controversy — or as much wonder — as Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. The narrative centres on two Indian Muslim actors, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, who miraculously survive the mid-air explosion of a hijacked aircraft over the English Channel, only to undergo a profound and terrifying metamorphosis: one takes on an angelic form, the other a demonic one. Set against a sweeping backdrop that moves between London and a mythologised Jahilia, the novel chronicles their struggle with identity, faith, and the immigrant experience in modern Britain, weaving together the sacred and the profane with breathtaking audacity. Rushdie constructs a labyrinthine narrative that draws on magical realism, Islamic theology, and postcolonial theory to interrogate the nature of revelation, the mutability of good and evil, and the cost of cultural displacement. His prose is dense, pyrotechnic, and unapologetically allusive — a style that demands as much as it rewards. A Booker Prize–winning author at the height of his powers, Rushdie presents a work that is simultaneously a love letter to and an indictment of the forces — religious, political, and personal — that shape human identity. The Satanic Verses remains one of the most debated and misunderstood masterworks of modern literature; to read it is to confront the very fault lines of the modern world.
Author: Salman Rushdie
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, Viking
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels in the twentieth century have ignited as much controversy — or as much wonder — as Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. The narrative centres on two Indian Muslim actors, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, who miraculously survive the mid-air explosion of a hijacked aircraft over the English Channel, only to undergo a profound and terrifying metamorphosis: one takes on an angelic form, the other a demonic one. Set against a sweeping backdrop that moves between London and a mythologised Jahilia, the novel chronicles their struggle with identity, faith, and the immigrant experience in modern Britain, weaving together the sacred and the profane with breathtaking audacity. Rushdie constructs a labyrinthine narrative that draws on magical realism, Islamic theology, and postcolonial theory to interrogate the nature of revelation, the mutability of good and evil, and the cost of cultural displacement. His prose is dense, pyrotechnic, and unapologetically allusive — a style that demands as much as it rewards. A Booker Prize–winning author at the height of his powers, Rushdie presents a work that is simultaneously a love letter to and an indictment of the forces — religious, political, and personal — that shape human identity. The Satanic Verses remains one of the most debated and misunderstood masterworks of modern literature; to read it is to confront the very fault lines of the modern world.