"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
An edition of The Satanic Verses
(1988)
The Satanic Verses
A Novel
5th printing
by Salman Rushdie
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Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.
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General & Literary Fiction, East Indians, Didactic fiction, literary fiction, families, Islam, Fiction, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Survival, open_syllabus_project, metamorphosis, death, Family, Description and travel, Travel, Fiction, general, India, fiction, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Criticism and interpretation, Islam in literature, Good and evil, English fiction, Roman de l'Inde de langue anglaise, Traductions françaises, Habiletés de survie, Romans, nouvelles, Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde), Hijacking of aircraft, Identity (Psychology), Airplane crash survival, Survie après accidents d'avion, General, Nicaragua, description and travel, JourneysPeople
Mahound, Allāt, Uzza, Manāt, Gibreel Farishta, Saladin Chamcha, Allie Cone, the Devil, Karim Abu Simbel, Al-Lat, Alleluia Cone, Ayesha, Anahita Sufyan, Bilal, Death, Changez Chamchawala, Hamza, Hanif Johnson, Hind, Mishal, ShaitanPlaces
India, England, London, Arabian Sea, Bombay, Brickhall, Everest, Yathrib, Spring of ZamzamShowing 11 featured editions. View all 48 editions?
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De duivelsverzen
2010-06, Pandora
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The Satanic Verses: A Novel
1997, Picador USA
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Los Versos Satanicos
1997 December, Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
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Les Versets sataniques
1990-06, France Loisirs
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The Satanic Verses
1989, Viking
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"'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die."
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The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published September 26, 1988 and inspired in part 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. The title refers to the satanic verses, a group of Quranic verses that refer to three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Uzza, and Manāt. The part of the story that deals with the "satanic verses" was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari.
In the United Kingdom, The Satanic Verses received positive reviews, was a 1988 Booker Prize finalist (losing to Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda) and won the 1988 Whitbread Award for novel of the year.
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