The satanic verses : a novel /
Rushdie, Salman,
The satanic verses : a novel / Salman Rushdie. - Random House trade paperbacks edition. - 561 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
The angel Gibreel -- Mahound -- Ellowen Deeowen -- Ayesha -- A city visible but unseen -- Return to Jahilia -- The angel Azraeel -- The parting of the Arabian Sea -- A wonderful lamp.
A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibreel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and 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.
9780812976717 0812976711 9781442085664 1442085665
2008272671
Airplane crash survival--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
East Indians--England--Fiction.
Airplane crash survival.
East Indians.
Life change events.
Survival--Fiction.
East Indians--England--Fiction.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
England.
England--London.
London (England)--Fiction.
Magic realism (Literature)
Allegories.
Didactic fiction.
Fiction.
Didactic fiction.
Didactic fiction.
PR6068.U757 / S27 2008
823/.914
The satanic verses : a novel / Salman Rushdie. - Random House trade paperbacks edition. - 561 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
The angel Gibreel -- Mahound -- Ellowen Deeowen -- Ayesha -- A city visible but unseen -- Return to Jahilia -- The angel Azraeel -- The parting of the Arabian Sea -- A wonderful lamp.
A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibreel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and 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.
9780812976717 0812976711 9781442085664 1442085665
2008272671
Airplane crash survival--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
East Indians--England--Fiction.
Airplane crash survival.
East Indians.
Life change events.
Survival--Fiction.
East Indians--England--Fiction.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
England.
England--London.
London (England)--Fiction.
Magic realism (Literature)
Allegories.
Didactic fiction.
Fiction.
Didactic fiction.
Didactic fiction.
PR6068.U757 / S27 2008
823/.914