The Satanic Verses
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 5th printing
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 561
ISBN-13: 9780312270827
Copyright date: 1988
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Fiction / General
First sentence: 'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.
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. 
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