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The Satanic Verses is a 1988 magical realism novel by Salman Rushdie. The novel weaves together different narratives spread across hundreds of years, framed by the story of two competing Indian Muslim actors.
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The Satanic Verses “The tone of the novel veers daringly from the slapstick to the melodramatic. … [Rushdie’s] conjuring tricks are magical.… personal and touching.” —The New York Times “A glittering novelist—one with startling imagination and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.” —The New Yorker
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Salman Rushdie’s novel. It contains explanations for many of its allusions and non-English words and phrases and aims as well at providing a thorough explication of the novel which will help the interested reader but not substitute for a reading of the book itself. Many links are provided to other sites on the Web where
The Satanic Verses tells the story of Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamacha after they survive falling from a jet. Terrorists blow up a jet over the English Channel. Upon landing,...
The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of the Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters.
