- General & Literary Fiction, East Indians, Didactic fiction, literary fiction
The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published September 26, 1988 and inspired in part by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 560
- Publisher
- Random House, Incorporated, The Consortium, Veen uitgevers
- Editions
- 61
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, gre
- ISBN
- 9781299036406
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“'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.”
Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
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