The Satanic Verses
When a terrorist's bomb destroys a jumbo jet high above the English Channel, two passengers fall safely to earth: Gibreel, an Indian movie actor, and Saladin, star of the controversial British television program, The Alien Show. The near-death experience changes them into living symbols of good and evilSaladin grows horns, Gibreel a halo. From this fantastic premise Rushdie spins a huge collection of loosely related subplots that combine mythology, folklore, and TV trivia in a tour de force of magic realism that investigates the postmodern immigrant experience.
A book so dangerous a fatwa has been issued for the death of its author! Even in the land of the free it's been removed from public libraries.
This copy is freshly kicked out from the Kouts Public Library from Indiana.