The Satanic Verses

Copertina rigida, 549 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 23 Febbraio 1989 da Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-670-82537-0
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Numero OCLC:
456675505

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Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Through the debris of limbs, drinks trolleys, memories, blankets, and oxygen masks, two figures fall towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, self-made self and Anglophile supreme. Clinging to each other, singing rival songs, they plunge downward, and are finally washed up, alive, on the snow-covered sands of an English beach.

Their survival is a miracle; but an ambiguous one, as Gibreel acquires a halo, while, to Saladin's dismay, his legs grow hairier, his feet turn into hooves, and hornlike appendages appear at his temples.

Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen (by whom?) as opponents in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil. But which is which? Can demons be angelic? Can angels be devils in disguise? As the two men …

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  • Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction
  • East Indians -- England -- Fiction
  • London (England) -- Fiction

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