num_pages: 576
description: Gibreel Farishta, a legendary Indian film star, and Anglophile Saladin Chamcha both survive an airplane explosion over the English Channel, as they wash up on an English beach with some unexpected results. Reprint. 20,000 first printing."
language: English
title: The Satanic Verses
titlecomplete: The Satanic Verses
characters: Saladin Chamcha, Gibreel Farishta
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Classics, Contemporary, Religion, Banned Books, Literary Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 64047
places: London, England, Bombay
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Henry Holt and Company