The Satanic Verses
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005FSRR94 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 287 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cathryn Conroy said A Difficult But Important Book for Our Difficult Times. I'll be honest: I could read this book many times and still not fully comprehend or appreciate all that is in it. Reading this book is as much work as it is joy--but totally worth the effort. Salman Rushdie published "The Satanic Verses" in 1988 and has been living with a "fatwa" on his head ever since. For that reason alone, I think we should all read it.It is a story of good vs. evil and how mixed-up the two can be. It is a story of visions and miracles. It is the story of violence and peace. It is the story of faith and unbelief. It is the story of the supernatural and insanity. It is the story. A forbidden but riotous fun filled and mischievous tale of two Indian emigrants to London. One with wings the other with horns. Chiek In The Satanic Verses: A Novel, the paths of the arch angel and the devil crossed several times in this bizarre supernatural framed narrative. Written by the worlds most notorious author because after 30 years on the run, he is still a fugitive with 3 million dollar bounty on his head. Dead preferably. Salman, although Indian muslim by heritage, has been a very accomplished and confident English writer. Although interestingly he did allude to his roots in this tale because most of his characters were Indian and certain segments of the story took place in India, Bombay for example. His two main cha. Great Book, Puzzling Reaction I finally got around to The Satanic Verses. You just have to read a book which got a death sentence for the author. Really, after the Ayatollah Khomeini issued the fatwa calling for Salmon Rushdie's death, Rushdie's Japanese translator was killed, his Italian translator and his Norwegian publisher were both stabbed (didn't die) and his Turkish translator ducked, but the miscreants burned down his hotel and killed 37 non-fatwa folks. So I sort of had to see what it was all about. I assumed it was culturally rich and I attended two lecture series on Islam to help me catch at least some of the obscur
This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. The story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times.. The tale of an Indian film star and a Bombay expatriate, Rushdie's masterpiece was deservedly honored with the Whitbread Prize. Inextricably linked with the fatwa called against its author in the wake of the novel's publication, The Satanic Verses is, beyond that, a rich showcase for Salman Rushdie's comic sensibilities, cultural observations, and unparalleled mastery of language. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil