![]() ![]() 50,000 first printing $50,000 ad/promo first serial to Harper's BOMC alternate QPBC alternate author tour. The narrative is somewhat burdened by self-consciousness that borders on preciosity, but for Rushdie fans this is a splendid feast. Angels are demonic and demons are angelic as we are propelled through one illuminating episode after another. About The Satanic Verses 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. ![]() Rushdie's fanciful language is as concentrated and overwhelming as a paisley pattern. What follows is a series of allegorical tales that challenges assumptions about both human and divine nature. When they are found on an English beach, the only survivors of the blast, Gibreel has sprouted a halo while Saladin has developed hooves, hairy legs and the beginnings of what seem like horns. As the two men plummet to the earth, ``like titbits of tobacco from a broken old cigar,'' they argue, sing and are transformed. Two actors from India, ``prancing'' Gibreel Farishta and ``buttony, pursed'' Saladin Chamcha, are flying across the English Channel when the first of many implausible events occurs: the jet explodes. Banned in India before publication, this immense novel by Booker Prize-winner Rushdie ( Midnight's Children ) pits Good against Evil in a whimsical and fantastic tale. ![]()
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