Rushdie Salman

The satanic verses : a novel

Article number  10208891‎ 

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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