The satanic verses / Salman Rushdie.

By: Rushdie, Salman [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Viking, 1989Copyright date: ©1989Edition: 1st American editionDescription: 546 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780670825370 (hardcover); 0670825379; 0670817570Subject(s): Survival -- Fiction | East Indians | Survival | East Indians -- England -- Fiction | Survival -- Fiction | Survival -- Fiction | Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction | East Indians -- England -- Fiction | England -- London | England | London (England) -- Fiction | London (England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Uncorrected proofs (Printing). | Uncorrected proofs (Printing) | Didactic fiction. | Uncorrected proofs (Printing). | Didactic fiction. | Allegories. | Didactic fiction. | Allegories. | Didactic fiction. | Fiction. | Didactic fiction. Additional physical formats: Online version: Satanic verses.DDC classification: 823/.914 LOC classification: PR9499.3.R8 | S28 1989PR6068.U757 | S27 1989Other classification: HN 7648 | HQ 6999 Also issued online.
Contents:
Angel Gibreel -- Mahound -- Ellowen Deeowen -- Ayesha -- City Visible but Unseen -- Return to Jahilia -- Angel Azraeel -- Parting of the Arabian Sea -- Wonderful Lamp.
Awards: Whitbread Award, 1988.Subject: A hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, 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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Angel Gibreel -- Mahound -- Ellowen Deeowen -- Ayesha -- City Visible but Unseen -- Return to Jahilia -- Angel Azraeel -- Parting of the Arabian Sea -- Wonderful Lamp.

A hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, 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.

Also issued online.

Whitbread Award, 1988.

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