$23.12
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
5 March 1998
Summary
One of the most controversial and infamous books of modern times.
Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea – Gibreel Farishta, India’s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices.
Washed up, alive, on an English beach, their survival is a miracle. But there is a price to pay. Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen as opponents …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780963270702 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0963270702 |
| Author: | Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 5 March 1998 |
| Weight: | 385g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 35mm |
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Critics Review
‘A staggering achievement, brilliantly enjoyable’ Nadine Gordimer
”‘A staggering achievement, brilliantly enjoyable’ Nadine Gordimer” “‘A masterpiece’ Sunday Times” “‘A novel of metamorphosis, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb’ The Times” “‘Damnably entertaining and fiendishly ingenious. One of the very few current writers whose works are attempts at the great Bible, “the bright book of life” ’ London Review of Books” “A great novelist, a master of perpetual storytelling.” V S Pritchett
About The Author
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children - for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary - Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife- Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
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