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Satanic Verses, The
 

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Magical Realism
Fantasy

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1 1988-00-00  

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Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two men-Gibreel Farishta, the biggest movie 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, they proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations.

•In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the author's death due to the perceived blasphemy of the book
•The translator of the Japanese language edition of the book was murdered
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