01339cam a2200313 a 4500 3331 FISKH 20240228153654.0 880914r19891988nyu 000 1 eng 88040266 0670825379 9780670825370 DLC eng DLC DLC OCoLC DLC PR6068.U757 S27 1989 823/.914 20 Rushdie, Salman. The satanic verses / Salman Rushdie. This edition 1989 New York : Viking, 1988 546 pages ; 24 cm. A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibreel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur -Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined. Survival Fiction. East Indians England Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Didactic fiction. gsafd 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 3331 3331 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC 001 001 ATKSF 2024-02-28 2 RUS Fic PR6068.U757 FISSE03221 2025-04-08 14:28:14 2024-09-02 2024-02-28 BK