The satanic verses ; a novel / Salman Rushdie.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812976717
- ISBN: 0812976711
- ISBN: 0312270828 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 561 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : New York, 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Survival > Fiction. East Indians > England > Fiction. Shipwreck survival > Fiction. Survival at sea > Fiction. Airplane crash survival > Fiction. London (England) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Didactic fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Newburgh Chandler PL - Bell Road Library | FIC RUSHDIE (Text) | 39206021135742 | Fiction | Available | - |
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Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnightâs Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moorâs Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, East, West; a memoir, Joseph Anton; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three collections of essays, most recently Languages of Truth. His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Ãtranger; the European Unionâs Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America. His books have been translated into over forty languages.