The Satanic Verses
Two Indian actors fall from a hijacked jumbo jet over the English Channel and survive the drop into Sussex, one acquiring a halo and the other goat's horns and hooves. Their London lives run alongside dream chapters set in a desert city where a merchant is receiving revelation, and in an Indian village where a girl of butterflies leads a pilgrimage toward the sea. The dream chapters drew the fatwa that put Rushdie into hiding for a decade.
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- influenced by ↑ The Master and Margarita
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