The Satanic Verses

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Condición del ejemplar: Good. Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked jumbo jet explodes high above the English Channel. Two passengers, both Indian actors, tumble through the sky and land, miraculously alive, on a snowy English beach. Gibreel Farishta is a superstar of Bombay cinema famous for playing gods. Saladin Chamcha is a man of a thousand voices who has spent years remaking himself as an Englishman. As they try to resume their lives, both men are strangely transformed: Gibreel begins to take on the qualities of an angel, while Saladin finds himself sprouting horns and hooves. Their fates become entwined in a series of dreamlike tales that range from contemporary London and Bombay to an ancient desert city and a pilgrimage across the sea. Dazzling, comic and inventive, Salman Rushdie’s fourth novel is a sweeping exploration of migration, identity, faith, doubt, love and betrayal, and of the struggle between good and evil within each of us. Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Satanic Verses is one of the most discussed literary works of the twentieth century, and a landmark of magical realism and postcolonial fiction.