Los Versos Satánicos / The Satanic Verses - by Salman Rushdie (Paperback)

About the Book

"A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibrel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur -Gibrel 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"--

Book Synopsis

Los versos satánicos es la novela más célebre, iconoclasta y polémica de Salman Rushdie.

Una referencia ineludible de la literatura de nuestro tiempo.

Un avión secuestrado estalla a gran altura sobre el canal de la Mancha. Dos supervivientes caen al mar: Gibrel Farishta, un legendario galán cinematográfico, y Saladin Chamcha, el hombre de las mil voces, autodidacta y anglófilo furibundo.

Consiguen llegar a una playa inglesa y notan unos extraños cambios: uno ha adquirido una aureola y el otro ve con horror cómo crece el vello de sus piernas, los pies se le convierten en cascos y las sienes se abultan...

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths."--Newsday

Winner of the Whitbread Prize

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times.

Review Quotes

«Una obra prodigiosa, brillante, deleitable.» --Nadine Gordimer

About the Author

Salman Rushdie (Bombay, 1947) ha sido el revitalizador de la novela india escrita en inglés para el resto del mundo. Ganador de numerosos premios literarios internacionales, y exento apenas de escándalos y persecuciones, como la fetua que el ayatolá Jomeini dictó contra él, es uno de los narradores más reputados de la actualidad.