Book
The satanic verses : a novel / Salman Rushdie.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812976717 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 561 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: Random House Trade Paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008.
- Copyright: ©1988
Content descriptions
| General Note: | This book was banned and challenged because it was claimed to have blasphemous depictions of religion. |
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| Subject: | Banned book sanctuary. Airplane crash survival > Fiction. Survival > Fiction. Immigrants > England > Fiction. East Indians > England > Fiction. Families > India > Fiction. London (England) > Fiction. India > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Didactic fiction. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Rushd | 31681010339059 | BOOK SANCTUARY | Checked out | 11/22/2025 |
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Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnightâs Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moorâs Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, East, West; a memoir, Joseph Anton; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three collections of essays, most recently Languages of Truth. His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Ãtranger; the European Unionâs Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America. His books have been translated into over forty languages.
