Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a se...(展开全部)

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a se...(展开全部)

以下摘自中文版（台湾）的介绍。 内容简介 出版史上，从来没有一本书像《撒旦诗篇》，夺去那么多人命，引爆那么大的国际危机，有那么多颗炸弹，为了一本书，而被扔向书店。自从1988年，它在英国问世以后，所引发的「事件」从欧美、印度到日本，造成的死亡人数已超过60，伤者数以百计。其中有译者、出版者、烧书者，还有更多完全不相干的人。悬赏追杀作者的奖金被一再提高，竟然高达3百万美元。激进团体还坚称，追杀令依然有效，至今从未改口。 今天，《撒旦诗篇》已成为言论自由的代名词。不管是要讨论后冷战世界秩序、文明之冲突，还是要探讨回教基本教义派的兴起茁壮，都不能不提到《撒旦诗篇》。 在「九一一」之前，也只有《撒旦诗篇》事件，足以左右世人视听，从此主观认定，西方代表正义和理性，回教则等于恐怖主义。 对照本书的内容，这样的简单二分法真是讽刺至极。因为，本书所针砭的当代弊病之一...(展开全部)

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 symbo...(展开全部)

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 symbo...(展开全部)

以下摘自中文版（台湾）的介绍。 内容简介 出版史上，从来没有一本书像《撒旦诗篇》，夺去那么多人命，引爆那么大的国际危机，有那么多颗炸弹，为了一本书，而被扔向书店。自从1988年，它在英国问世以后，所引发的「事件」从欧美、印度到日本，造成的死亡人数已超过60，伤者数以百计。其中有译者、出版者、烧书者，还有更多完全不相干的人。悬赏追杀作者的奖金被一再提高，竟然高达3百万美元。激进团体还坚称，追杀令依然有效，至今从未改口。 今天，《撒旦诗篇》已成为言论自由的代名词。不管是要讨论后冷战世界秩序、文明之冲突，还是要探讨回教基本教义派的兴起茁壮，都不能不提到《撒旦诗篇》。 在「九一一」之前，也只有《撒旦诗篇》事件，足以左右世人视听，从此主观认定，西方代表正义和理性，回教则等于恐怖主义。 对照本书的内容，这样的简单二分法真是讽刺至极。因为，本书所针砭的当代弊病之一...(展开全部)

One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation. Known as the Satanic verses, these praises to the pagan deities contradict the Islamic belief that Allah is one and absolute. Muslims today―of all sects―deny that the incident of the Satanic verses took plac...(展开全部)

One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation. Known as the Satanic verses, these praises to the pagan deities contradict the Islamic belief that Allah is one and absolute. Muslims today―of all sects―deny that the incident of the Satanic verses took plac...(展开全部)

Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. Tasha Tudor's watercolor paintings evoke a simpler time in the past, and cel...(展开全部)

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