Words Wednesday: Salman Rushdie
The first post of our new weekly feature, Words Wednesday, spotlights Salman Rushdie, one of our favorite contemporary authors.
This quote comes from Salman Rushdie’s highly acclaimed and hugely controversial work The Satanic Verses. First published in 1988, the novel opens as two Indian expatriate friends, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, fall from the sky after surviving a plane bombing. The two friends land on earth magically transformed into the archangel Gibreel and the devil himself. The novel follows the two characters as their new lives both diverge and intersect. Moving fluidly between plots spanning thousands of years, The Satanic Verses speaks to themes of alienation, cultural identity, exploitation and doubt.
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