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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Salman Rushdie; 3M Company. |
ISBN: | 9781409058854 1409058859 9780307786654 030778665X |
OCLC Number: | 841330469 |
Notes: | Electronic book. |
Description: | 1 online resource 1 online resource (576 pages) |
Responsibility: | Rushdie, Salman. |
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Abstract:
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 sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations.
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'A staggering achievement, brilliantly enjoyable' Nadine Gordimer 'A masterpiece' Sunday Times 'A novel of metamorphosis, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb' The Times 'Damnably entertaining and fiendishly ingenious. One of the very few current writers whose works are attempts at the great Bible, "the bright book of life" ' London Review of Books A great novelist, a master of perpetual storytelling. * V S Pritchett * Read more...

