About this title: Rushdie's controversial bestseller, which earned him a sentence of death from the Islamic hierarchy of Iran, is a magical realist fantasy that examines questions of identity and belief. Two survivors of an airplane crash, Saladin and Gibreel, are transformed from ordinary citizens and public figures into personifications of Good and Evil, ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Consortium Inc
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780963270702ISBN:0963270702
Description: Very Good. First Edition. Family business dispatching books to all over the world within 24/48 hours. Next day delivery and gist wrapping are available. read more
Edition: 10th Printing
Binding: Original Cloth
Publisher: Viking Press, London
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780670825370ISBN:0670825379
Description: Good++ in Good++ jacket. Hardback. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Shelf toning to block edge with small colour marking to page tops. A good sound copy, contents are clean & lightly used. No inscriptions. Jacket has minor edge wear, unclipped. 547pp. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Consortium, Dover
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780963270702ISBN:0963270702
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1st US paperback edition, large 8vo, 547pp, card covers a little creased about extrems, still close to VG Copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: VIKING
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780670825370ISBN:0670825379
Description: Published by Viking in 1989. Hardback with Dust jacket. Number of pages: 560. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Dust Jacket torn. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
"If just to find out what all the fuss is about. I first ordered this book from a small bookstore and when it arrived, I clandestinely read it my bedroom. The only problem was I had no idea how to decipher the first chapter :)
Here we see Rushdie at his most playful and creative. Inspiring a hybridity of characters that fluidly blend and shape shift between one another and history, The Satanic Verses is what I would consider one of the best books I've read in my entire life. There's a mix of Bollywood, Jorge Luis Borges, Shakespeare's Othello, South Asian Diaspora life, Thatcherite England, The 1001 Arabian Nights, The Wizard of Oz, and of course Islam. There are some websites out there that put a reference to every allusion that Rushdie makes, but even without this dense background, the book is still highly enjoyable because of the questions it asks...and it's a really humourous book, too.
A highly recommended book which I would consider better than Midnight's Children, and also a book that ask troubling and difficult questions from its reader."
"This book is diabolical nonsense. How did it ever receive national acclaim? It is a waste of time to read this book when there are so many good books to read."
By Ellie,
Henley-On-Thames, OXON, The United Kingdom
"I was massively underwhelmed by this. I have put off and put off reading it, and then I was told by a friend that it was her favourite book, so I thought I'd give it a go, and frankly I wish I hadnt bothered.
I found the writing pretentious, with very little story. It has the potential to be brilliant, as the bones of it is good, but there is so much waffle, rubbish and unnessessary wording that it fast becomes tedious and irritatnig.
That said its made him very rich, so good on him!"
Twenty years after controversy and confusion, I picked this book almost as an obligation, wondering if the publicity was its greatest quality. In fact, on its own, this is, in my opinion, a great novel -- a story which incorporates so many elements all the while never neglecting one or making any feel superfluous.
Politics, religion, family, good and evil, love, hate -- all these elements intertwine but never step on each other, making "The Satanic Verses" one of the most pleasant discoveries I've made in a long while. I say discovery because I was expecting so little.
I must admit that I am not well-versed in Islamic lore to fully understand the elements that led to the infamous fatwa of the late '80s. I can see some points of contention, however.
The strongest elements for me were the feelings of lack of identity that pervade the existence of Saladin/Salahuddin. I can only imagine the feelings of duality an immigrant could feel in the capital city of the conquerors of his own country. Mr. Rushdie is particularly effective in describing Saladin's loneliness and feelings of displacement.
Furthermore, Mr. Rushdie gives us an interesting glimpse into his own view of the race relations situation in London.
Overall, few negatives to mention about this novel..."
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