The satanic verses /
Salman Rushdie.
- London : Vintage, 1998.
- 546 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Viking, 1988.
A Whitbread Prize winner, this book is a study of good and evil. It begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.