The satanic verses

Beskrivning:

London "visible but unseen"; and. centrally, the story of
Mahound, the Prophet of Jahilia, the city of sand -
Mahound, the recipient of a revelation in which satanic
verses mingle with divine.

In this great wheel of a book. where the past and the
future chase each other furiously. Salman Rushdie
takes us on an epic journey, a journey of tears and
laughter, of wonderful stories and astonishing flights of
the imagination, a journey towards the evil and the
good that lie inseparablv entwined within the hearts of
women and of men.

Salman Rushdie is the author of the novels Grimus.
Midnight's Children (winner of the 1981 Booker Prize.
the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the English-
Speaking Union Literary Award) and Shame (winner of
the Prix du Meilleur Eyre Êtranger); of The Jaguar
Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey: and of the television
films The Riddle of Midnight and The Painter and the
Pest. He is a member of the Production Board of the
British Film Institute and the Advisory Board of the
Institute of Contemporary Arts, and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature. Born in Bombay in 1947.
he now lives in London. His books have been
translated into twenty languages.

The cover shows a detail from Rustam Killing the White
Demon from a Clive Album in the Victoria and Albert
Museum.
(photo: Bridgeman Art Library)

Roman