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This is a very strange surreal book where Salman Rushdie exorcises his Muslim roots.
A terrorist bomb has exploded on a plane sending our two main characters Gabireel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha to their certain deaths. However, on the way down, Gabireel sings a song and flaps his arms and the slow down and survive their fall. They will never be the same.
The story seems to move around a lot of back and forth in time, coupled with Gibreel's dreams. I found it hard to follow at times. The side st ...more
A terrorist bomb has exploded on a plane sending our two main characters Gabireel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha to their certain deaths. However, on the way down, Gabireel sings a song and flaps his arms and the slow down and survive their fall. They will never be the same.
The story seems to move around a lot of back and forth in time, coupled with Gibreel's dreams. I found it hard to follow at times. The side st ...more
Oct 05, 2019
Julie
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DNF-Maybe I'll try again when I'm retired, but I just couldn't get into it, and time is short.
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not worth the hype. it's title deals with the verses where mohammed said female deities are just as good as Allah so he could try to win converts ina town. he tried to take it back and was so embarrassed that he left that town, worked up converts elsewhere and came back after 25 years to destroy the "wicked" town. another side story goes into a girl leading a pilgrimage to mecca. the whole reason to be told this story is because one of the characters tries to make a movie about it.
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Jul 26, 2009
Melissa
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I'm not quite sure what to think. There are major themes about alienation, migration, racism, jealousy, and forgiveness at work in the novel.
I loved the writing style and did very much enjoy Rushdie's "conversational" voices, particularly that of characters like Sosodia - you could really "hear" the character speaking in his own voice. I did have a bit of trouble keeping some of the character names straight - many names like Mishal, Hind, Ayesha are doubled with the dream sequences - but it work ...more
I loved the writing style and did very much enjoy Rushdie's "conversational" voices, particularly that of characters like Sosodia - you could really "hear" the character speaking in his own voice. I did have a bit of trouble keeping some of the character names straight - many names like Mishal, Hind, Ayesha are doubled with the dream sequences - but it work ...more
Phenomenally beautiful prose. So glad I finally read.this.
Sep 30, 2007
Erin
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