false 2454527 151055 4834 0670825379 9780670825370 53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165468733m/4834.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165468733s/4834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4834.The_Satanic_Verses 3.77 376 The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.]]> 3299 3.87 37752 4766 1988 3 18 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Jun 27 13:22:56 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 22:54:18 -0800 2009 ...more...]]>