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The Satanic Verses (Paperback)

by Salman Rushdie (Author)
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  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Consortium Inc; New edition edition (1 April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0963270702
  • ISBN-13: 978-0963270702
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,906 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a fatwa from Iran's Ayatollahs decreeing his death. Furore aside, it is a marvellously 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 astonishing powers of invention are at their best in this Whitbread Prize winner.


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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.
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38 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Controversial but brilliant, 29 Jul 2007
By Sam J. Ruddock (Norwich, England) - See all my reviews
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Don't you think it's about time you made up your own mind about the most controversial book of the modern era? If nothing else, it will give you an opinion the next time the media gets its knickers in a twist about what is, at the end of the day, a work of fiction

But it will give you so much more than that. There is everything you expect from a Salman Rushdie novel: vast in scope, vivid in portrayal and seriously bizarre. As the author has often pointed out, it is also darkly comic and often hilarious. It is a vastly satirical meditation on the theology of religion, the struggle between human doubt and belief and, above all, the power of stories to change the world. Themes of race and immigration flow through the book alongside the usual contemporary and classical references. Reading a Salman Rushdie book is like reading nothing else, he is wholesomely devious, wonderfully irreverent and completely unique. His is a style of writing brimming with delightful sentences, so beautifully worded as to be like some fabulous cocktail: refreshing and invigorating and with that little kick of something you know is truly special.

The story revolves around the lives of Gibreel Farishta, legend of Bollywood Cinema, and Saladin Chamcha, the voice of radio, the man of a thousand voices. When their plane is blown up by terrorists high above the English Channel they float slowly to earth, as though divinely spared certain death. It soon becomes apparent that there is more to their escape than meets the eye. For while Saladin Chamcha begins to sprout horns, cloven feet and a forked tail, Gibreel Farishta seems to be shrouded by the glow of a halo. Confronted with dreams of past prophets Gibreel sets out to change the world. But as the lives of the two men become increasingly entangled within the social climate of the 1980's the clarity of Gibreel's belief becomes cloudy and we are left questioning where enlightenment ends and madness begins.

Salman Rushdie is a breath of fresh air in this tense and divided world: the antidote to community relations rather than the cause. Read this book, and make up your own mind. Because that is what Rushdie is all about, not dogma, not fear, but making ones own mind up, questioning the world, and being able to laugh at oneself. Rarely has a knighthood been so thoroughly deserved.
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed... :(, 14 Jun 2008
I bought The Satanic Verses for many different reasons.... the main one being to see why there was so much contorversy surrounding the book....

Even though the book in my opinion was very cleverly written with highly intriguing characters, I don't know, I just didn't enjoy the book. Whilst reading the book I was disappointed as I thought it would offer me more than what it did, which was hardly anything. As a Muslim, I wasn't as offended as others because I thought the book was a higly imaginative work of fiction. I found the characters in the book very intriguing and completely fell in love with the characters of the young teenage girls as I thought they were hilarious and correctly portrayed young teenagers. I liked the cross of cultures and the surreality of certain aspects of the text. I thought the idea of good and bad, and what is really good and bad very intelligent and also thought provoking. But even then, I just didn't enjoy the book. Maybe it was because the text was so small... maybe because there was too much imagery, maybe because it just didn't have that little something in it for me.

I see a lot of mixed reaction to this book, which is good as not everyones opinion is the same, but for me: the book was very intelligent but I just didn't enjoy it.

I do recommend it however, to most people. As its one of those books that everyone should read and draw their own opinions of. I need to read his other books to compare them against this one.

Not very helpful as a review I know. Sorry. I'm just torn bewteen my opinions of this book.
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31 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Modern Fantasy, 16 Jul 2002
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This book is exquisite. From start to finish the story wraps itself around you not letting you escape from its grasp. I found myself questioning my life and the kind of person I am throughout the and mulling over its ideas after reading. It was impressive to read a mainstream book (due to the press mainly) actually handle the ideas of Good and Evil as abstracts rather than merely PC right and wrong. The ideas seem to reach many people on many different levels (as all great books should) as everyone I know who has read it was delighted but in different ways. Although the story wavers sometimes and you may get a little bored when hearing of the two main characters love lives and slow mental anguish your perseverance is rewarded.

What can I say? I loved it.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Incomprehensible Satanic Verses
I had prevously read another book by Rushdie and enjoyed it, but I found this one to be incomprehensible and gave up after a few pages. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Rushdie and Satan have a lot to answer for
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3.0 out of 5 stars Still worth reading
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1.0 out of 5 stars Overrated gibberish
The best thing this book recieved was notoriety in the media. Had it not been for its polemic content I doubt it would have been as widely read as it has. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not fit for a bonfire
There are few books which I have started but not finished but this is sadly one of them. The Muslims made a big mistake giving this the publicity they did. Read more
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