The Satanic VersesI. The Angel Gibreel
II. Mahound
III. Ellowen Deeowen
IV. Ayesha
V. A City Visible but Unseen
VI. Return to Jahilia
VII. The Angel Azraeel
VIII. The Parting of the Arabian Sea
IX. A Wonderful Lamp
Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels,
including Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize
and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s
Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for
the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, East, West; a memoir,
Joseph Anton; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three
collections of essays, most recently Languages of Truth. His many
awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won
twice; the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the
National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger;
the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest
Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a
Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a
former president of PEN America. His books have been translated
into over forty languages.
"Salman Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to
conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures,
customs, out of thin air." -- The New York Times Book Review
"...a surreal hallucinatory feast." -- Kirkus Reviews
"...a splendid feast." -- Publishers Weekly
“[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and
enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this
spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its
psychological truths.”—Newsday
“Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious,
extraordinary . . . a roller-coaster ride over a vast
landscape of the imagination.”—The Guardian
—The Times (London)
"In pure aesthetic terms, “The Satanic Verses” is a delight: funny,
broadly erudite and wrenchingly gorgeous. And as a matter of
politics and religion, this novel embodies the unique ideological
power of art: to push beyond what’s possible, to say what would be
too costly for actors in another arena to speak aloud, to expand
the audience’s sense of what the world can be." -- Alyssa
Rosenberg, The Washington Post
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