{"product_id":"the-satanic-verses","title":"The Satanic Verses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e#1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/span\u003e • \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“[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.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Whitbread Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/span\u003e 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, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Satanic Verses \u003c\/span\u003eis a key work of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePraise for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.”\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary . . . a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination.”\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles, and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb.”\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e (London)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shabd Nirantar : A World of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41710365507659,"sku":"SR-TSV-RH-001","price":400.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/2996\/2059\/files\/20250823_221525.jpg?v=1761725519","url":"https:\/\/shabdnirantar.myshopify.com\/products\/the-satanic-verses","provider":"Shabd Nirantar : A World of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}