The Satanic Verses
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409058854
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 560

The Satanic Verses

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6 Mar 1998
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1 Aug 2011
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One of the most controversial and infamous books of modern times

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.

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?
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409058854
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 560
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About the author

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

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Praise for The Satanic Verses

A great novelist, a master of perpetual storytelling.

V S Pritchett

'A masterpiece' Sunday Times

'A novel of metamorphosis, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb' The Times

A rollercoaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination.

The Guardian

'A staggering achievement, brilliantly enjoyable' Nadine Gordimer

'Damnably entertaining and fiendishly ingenious. One of the very few current writers whose works are attempts at the great Bible, "the bright book of life" ' London Review of Books