Satanic Verses

Informationen zum Autor Salman Rushdie Klappentext Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt. Discover Salman Rushdie's critically acclaimed magical realist study of good and evil. 'A masterpiece' Sunday Times Just before dawn one winter's morning, a plane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Washed up, alive, on an English beach, their survival is a miracle. But there is a price to pay. Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen as opponents in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil. But chosen by whom? And which is which? And what will be the outcome of their final confrontation? 'A great novelist, a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett Zusammenfassung Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India’s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices.

Product details

• Authors: Salman Rushdie, Rushdie Salman
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.01.1998
• EAN: 9780963270702
• ISBN: 978-0-9632707-0-2
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Indische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Religious, India, Modern and contemporary fiction, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, PEN/Pinter Prize Winner