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The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Random House Publishing Group
, 2011-02-23
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Fantasy / Paranormal
Fiction / Psychological
ISBN
030778665X
9780307786654
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=v44jBjKVeO8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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#1
NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER
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“[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—
Newsday
Winner of the Whitbread Prize
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written,
The Satanic Verses
is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality,
The Satanic Verses
is a key work of our times.
Praise for
The Satanic Verses
“Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.”
—
The New York Times Book Review
“Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary . . . a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination.”
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The Guardian
(London)
“A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles, and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb.”
—
The Times
(London)