The Satanic Verses (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Salman Rushdie
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Twentieth century, Islam, Religion, Asia or Asians, England or English people, Muslims, India or East Indian people, London, Terrorism or terrorists
- Locales: London, England, Bombay, India, Jahilia (mythic)
THE SATANIC VERSES opens with two characters, Gibreel and Saladin, miraculously surviving a 29,000-foot fall from an exploding plane onto an English beach. During their descent, Gibreel, a Bombay superstar famous for portraying Indian deities, acquires a halo like the archangel Gabriel, whom he dreams himself into impersonating throughout the novel. Saladin, an Indian migrant who has become a snobbish Anglophile, grows horns and cloven hooves and turns into the Devil. The novel unfolds between these characters through a series of fascinating and often irreverent narratives with the...
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