The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie · 1988
Literary Fiction · ranked #212 in category
Winner · The Whitbread Book of the Year, 1988
Two Indian actors survive a plane explosion over the English Channel by falling — and land transformed: one into a figure of divine radiance, one into something diabolical. Rushdie's novel is a meditation on identity, migration, good and evil, and the nature of revelation — and it became the most politically explosive novel of the 20th century.
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