The Satanic Verses

About The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988) follows two Indian actors who survive a plane bombing by falling from thirty thousand feet and transforming — one toward the angelic, one toward the devilish. A novel of magical realism, British immigrant experience, and the nature of revelation that provoked the Iranian fatwa and became one of the most controversial works in literary history.