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The satanic verses / Salman Rushdie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking, 1988Edition: This edition 1989Description: 546 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0670825379
  • 9780670825370
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 20
LOC classification:
  • PR6068.U757 S27 1989
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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Books Footprints International School Library Network Toul Kork Campus A TK Campus, 4th Floor, Room B401, Fiction Bookcases (1-6) Fiction RUS Fic PR6068.U757 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available FISSE03221

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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