Ayatollah Khomeini accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death Rushdie, so he has been forced into exile. All this for a book.
Maybe this is the real reason why I bought it, but I immediately loved it from the first pages. For me it's like an art gallery, is a series of paintings - color, images, feelings, situations, even fun ones. A wonderful book to read absolutely.
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No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book 0
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No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.
"I don't remember much of the story, I must be honest. What this book left in me is a kind of tapestry in my mind with colors and pieces of stories patched up together
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Salman Rushdie reads from "The Satanic Verses"
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“Ayatollah Khomeini accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death Rushdie, so he has been forced into exile. All this for a book.
Maybe this is the real reason why I bought it, but I immediately loved it from the first pages. For me it's like an art gallery, is a series of paintings - color, images, feelings, situations, even fun ones. A wonderful book to read absolutely.
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Accusato di blasfemia dall'ayatollah Komeini e condannato a morte, Rushdie si è trovato costretto all'esilio. Tutto questo per un libro.
Forse è il vero motivo per cui l'ho comprato, ma l'ho amato subito, dalle prime pagine. Per me è come una galleria d'arte, è un susseguirsi di quadri - colori, immagini, sensazioni, situazioni anche divertenti. Un libro bellissimo da legg” read more
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