num_pages: 561
description: 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. From the back cover.
language: English
title: The Satanic Verses
titlecomplete: The Satanic Verses
characters: Saladin Chamcha, Gibreel Farishta
genres: Religion, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Banned Books, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 64042
places: London, England, Bombay
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Picador