by Salman Rushdie · Plaza & Janés Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401413827
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«Los versos satánicos» is the magic realist novel by Salman Rushdie, published by Plaza & Janés Editores in paperback (678 pages, in Spanish).
Two Muslim actors of Indian origin survive the explosion of a hijacked plane over the English Channel. On an English beach, they undergo supernatural transformations: one acquires a halo and the other sees his body become goat-like. The novel combines magic realism, controversy and reflections on identity, faith and alienation.
First edition: Barcelona, 1997; Ave Fénix collection no. 240-2. Original work: «The Satanic Verses» (1988).
Novel for readers of literary fiction interested in magic realism and in classic, controversial titles about faith and identity.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
