Rushdie Salman
The satanic verses : a novel
Article number 10208891
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. The angel Gibreel -- Mahound -- Ellowen Deeowen -- Ayesha -- A city visible but unseen -- Return to Jahilia -- The angel Azraeel -- The parting of the Arabian Sea -- A wonderful lamp.
Condition
Used - Very good
Language
English
Article type
Book - Hardcover
Year
1988
Publisher
Viking
Edition
1
EAN
9780670825370
Dust jacket
Very good
561 pages : portrait ; 21 cm Airplane crash survival--Fiction. Life change events--Fiction. East Indians--England--Fiction. London (England)--Fiction. Didactic fiction. Text