Description: The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman Published by Viking, New York, 1989. First American Edition (stated) 6th Printing.(with "6" present in the number line) . Cloth backed boards hardcover covers clean ; very faint foxing inside front and rear covers blank endpapers; general light wear ; in dust jacket has light foxing to front and rear flap, else near very good. (see photos). "The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. The title refers to the Satanic Verses, a group of Quranic verses about three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Al-Uzza, and Manāt.The part of the story that deals with the "satanic verses" was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari. The book received wide critical acclaim, was a 1988 Booker Prize finalist (losing to Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda), and won the 1988 Whitbread Award for novel of the year. Timothy Brennan called the work "the most ambitious novel yet published to deal with the immigrant experience in Britain".
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Salman Rushdie
Region: North America
Publisher: Viking
Topic: Literature, Modern
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1989
