The Satanic Verses
Author(s): Salman Rushdie
When a jumbo jet blows apart above the English Channel, Gabreel and Saladin are two who survive and are washed up on an English beach. However, it soon becomes clear that curious changes have come over them and that they have been chosen as protagonists in the eternal struggle between God and the Devil. Salman Rushdie is the author of "Midnight's Children", winner of the 1981 Booker Prize, and "Shame".
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Winner of Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1988 and Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1988.
Born in Bombay in 1947, Salman Rushdie is the author of six novels, including Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and a volume of essays, Imaginary Homelands. His numerous literary prizes include the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children and the Whitbread Prize for The Satanic Verses.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Viking
- : 31 July 1988
- : 237mm X 169mm X 43mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Salman Rushdie
- : Hardback with dustjacket
- : en
- : 560
