by Salman Rushdie · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432246319
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«Los versos satánicos» is the magic realism novel by Salman Rushdie, published by Planeta Pub Corp in paperback (517 pages, in Spanish).
After a plane explodes over the English Channel, two survivors, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, undergo transformations: one develops a halo and the other becomes a demonic figure. Their dreams reinterpret religious episodes, in a reflection on faith, identity, migration and cultural clash.
Novel originally published in 1988 as The Satanic Verses. This Spanish edition features a translation by J.L. Miranda. Winner of the Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1988.
For readers of contemporary fiction and magic realism, with an interest in novels that address religion, identity and migration.
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.
