false 36099831 186957 12781 0312270828 9780312270827 707 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12781.The_Satanic_Verses 3.83 6483 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 37744 4763 1988 4 0 false Wed Dec 24 05:25:11 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 24 08:59:39 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 24 05:25:11 -0800 2008