{"product_id":"the-satanic-verses-by-salman-rushdie-3226o","title":"The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie","description":"\u003cp\u003e#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.  Praise for The Satanic Verses  Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up wholegeographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.-The New York Times Book Review  Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary . . .a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination.-The Guardian (London)  A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations,revelations, advertising jingles, and jokes. Rushdie has the power ofdescription, and we succumb.-The Times (London)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41843385598026,"sku":"3226o","price":13.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/3226o.jpg?v=1764496832","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-satanic-verses-by-salman-rushdie-3226o","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}