Name: Die satanischen Verse
Rating: 3.463768115942029 (69 reviews)
ISBN: 9783426606483

Salman Rushdie

Roman

Die satanischen Verse

The Satanic Verses

This is a very complex book so you have to pay a good amount of attention when you read this. This beautifully written book by Salman Rushdie is about 2 muslims from India who survive a plane crash and how the events follow up. This is an extremely layered book which covers many topics like the spectrum of reality, religious righteusness, identity crisis, tainted love, schizophrenia, symbolism and more. Both the characters are well written throughout from their past and how it ends up implementing the future. The ending doesn't live up to the whole book imo, it felt really rushed and the ending felt very namesake. If you read the book you'd understand what you mean. I expected much more layered complexity which could've gone for a few more chapters. 

In the end, very unique and deeply layered book. Highly recommended!

P.S I understand why this book is controversial but I really don't see why this book is banned.

Aarush Arora

This is a very complex book so you have to pay a good amount of attention when you read this. This beautifully written book by Salman Rushdie is about 2 muslims from India who survive a plane crash and how the events follow up. This is an extremely layered book which covers many topics like the spectrum of reality, religious righteusness, identity crisis, tainted love, schizophrenia, symbolism and more. Both the characters are well written throughout from their past and how it ends up implementing the future. The ending doesn't live up to the whole book imo, it felt really rushed and the ending felt very namesake. If you read the book you'd understand what you mean. I expected much more layered complexity which could've gone for a few more chapters. 
In the end, very unique and deeply layered book. Highly recommended!

P.S I understand why this book is controversial but I really don't see why this book is banned.

The explosion of a jetliner over India triggers an Apocalyptic battle that sweeps across the subcontinent. Reprint.

A Novel

So cool. Took me so much longer to get through than I expected just because of the sheer vocabulary of Rushdie! Nothing happens in this book that I thought would occur, flabbergasted the entire time. Love my boys Gibreel and Saladhudden, love the mountain climber Allie, and the animal hospital was so goooood! First Rushdie, won’t be the last.

Eli Alvah Huckabee

Brishti Basu

Overwhelming is the word I'd use to describe The Satanic Verses. Although it had a brilliant concept and was immensely thought provoking at times,the book was so riddled with unnecessary and tangential plot-lines that it took a ridiculously long time to finish reading it.

Vedat Güven

Garip bir kitap. Gerekli olmayan hikayeler eklenmiş. Farklı konuların, zorlarsan, ortak noktaları var ama çok da birbiriyle bağlantılı değil gibi. Bazı yerleri fantastik kurgu bazı yerleri gerçek kurgu. Kitap bazen günümüzde geçiyor bazen İslam'ın geldiği zamanda bazen ise belli olmayan bir zamanda geçiyor. Cümleler uzun, karmaşık ve çok eski kelimelerden oluşması, okumayı ve anlamayaı zorlaştırıyor. Bazen bir kahraman bir rakip olabiliyor; bazen melek ruhlu bir kişi, şeytanlık yapıyor. Her insanın içinde iyi ve kötü vardır; melek ve şeytan her insanın içinde aynı anda bulunur. Peygamberimizin hayatı hakkında, Cebrail hakkında hassas konularda yazılmış pasajlar var. Ne kadarı uydurma ne kadarı tarihsel gerçeklere dayanıyor, bilemiyoruz. El netice; "hoşgörü" dini olan İslam'da hem de İslam Cumhuriyeti olan İran tarafından, ölüm fetvasının çıkarılmasını yanlış buluyorum. İslam'ı bu fetvalarla savunarak değil ilim ile, hoşgörü ile, sevgi ve barış ile yüceltmeliyiz.

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses 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, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times.

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a novel

Guin Hartinger

Salman Rushdie uses prose that sprawls out before the reader in powerful and natural patterns that always enchant. Even formatting is utilized to further the impact of the story; metatextuality is just one of the myriad faces to this work. Rushdie's images of Evil are compelling as is the nature of Evil presented. In our modern world of masks and liars, an Evil that assumes multitudes of shapes is extremely relevant. However, Rushdie creates a voice for Evil that matches his images, which is even more powerful to the reader as the sense of sound is less mediated through the text. While Evil is compelling (and often seems to bury Virtue), Life and morality are presented in painful honesty that complicates any moral claims the text or characters make. This labyrinthine image of the world reflects reality and asks the reader to question their assumptions regarding fundamental principles of life and humanity. The greatest way Rushdie achieves this is through his portrayal of 'magic' or miracles in The Satanic Verses, which seem to manifest for those who believe in them but not for onlookers. This presentation of magic sews doubt as to where this magic manifests, either in the mind or in reality that others cannot access. Faith and madness are intertwined, reality is not fixed and will challenge you to understand its secrets. A superb novel.

Hannah W

Inextricably linked with the fatwa called against its author in the wake of the novel's publication, The Satanic Verses is, beyond that, a rich showcase for Salman Rushdie's comic sensibilities, cultural observations, and unparalleled mastery of language. The tale of an Indian film star and a Bombay expatriate, Rushdie's masterpiece was deservedly honored with the Whitbread Prize.

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