The Satanic Verses

副标题: A Novel

ISBN: 9780963270702

出版社: New Society Publishers

出版年: 1992-04

页数: 560

定价: GBP 9.99

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses , which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.