The Satanic Verses (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Salman Rushdie
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Late twentieth and early seventh centuries
- Setting: London, India, and Jahilia
- Principal Characters: Gibreel Farishta, Saladin Chamcha, Pamela Lovelace, Alleluia Cone, Mahound, Hind, The Imam, Ayesha, Zeeny Vikal, Salman, Baal
- 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 Story:
Odd-numbered Chapters. Around New Year’s Day, just before dawn, Sikh terrorists destroyed an Air India jumbo jet in flight. Two passengers miraculously, or fantastically, fell safely into the English Channel, the one flapping his arms and singing, the other desperately, doubtfully clinging to his companion. Forty-year-old Gibreel Farishta, née Ismail Najruddin, was a poor orphan who had grown up to become India’s biggest film star. “Fortyish” Saladin Chamcha, née Salahuddin Chamchawala, the estranged Anglophile son of a prominent Bombay businessman,...
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