Shaandaar

Gibreel Farishta, holding Azraeel, enters the Shaandaar Caf-.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Mishal Sufyan is outside the Shaandaar when they emerge, weeping for her parents, being comforted by Hanif.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

His cocooned life at the Shaandaar B and B blew apart the evening Hanif Johnson came in shouting that they had arrested Uhuru Simba for the Granny Ripper murders, and the word was they were going to lay the Black Magic thing on him too, he was going to be the voodoo-priest baron-samedi fall guy, and the reprisals -- beatings -- up, attacks on property, the usual -- were already beginning.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

And yet it was also a fact that she, cook and breadwinner, chiefest architect of the success of the Shaandaar Caf-, which had finally enabled them to buy the whole four-storey building and start renting out its rooms, -- _she_ was the one around whom there hung, like bad breath, the miasma of defeat.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Now he sees the Shaandaar, on fire; and comes to a skidding halt.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

What is to be found here, one mile from the Shaandaar, here where the beat meets the street, at Club Hot Wax, formerly the Blak-An-Tan?

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Silhouetted against the backdrop of the ignited Shaandaar Caf-, see, that's the very fellow!

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Then, on the fourth evening, the telephone rang behind the counter of the Shaandaar Caf-.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Shaandaar residents gathered in the night -- kitchen for an impromptu crisis summit.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Anahita Sufyan, on duty behind the counter of the Shaandaar Caf-, banged cups and plates.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967