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The satanic verses : a novel / Salman Rushdie. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [(c)2008.Description: 561 pages : portrait ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780812976717
  • 0812976711
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR6068.S283 2008
  • PR6068.U757.R953.S283 2008
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor Non-fiction PR6068.U757S27 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001560735

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.

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.

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