The Satanic Verses
General & Literary FictionEast IndiansDidactic fictionliterary fictionfamilies
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"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
About this book
The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published September 26, 1988 and inspired in part by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. The title refers to the satanic verses, a group of Quranic verses that refer to three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Uzza, and Manāt. The part of the story that deals with the "satanic verses" was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari. In the United Kingdom, The Satanic Verses received positive reviews, was a 1988 Booker Prize finalist (losing to Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda) and won the 1988 Whitbread Award for novel of the year.
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General & Literary FictionEast IndiansDidactic fictionliterary fictionfamiliesIslam
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IndiaEnglandLondonArabian SeaBombayBrickhallEverestYathribSpring of Zamzam
About the author
Salman Rushdie
1947
Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
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