The Satanic Verses

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by Salman Rushdie

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.

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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

— Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses