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"A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibrel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur -Gibrel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined"--

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"A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibrel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur -Gibrel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined"--
Autorenporträt
Salman Rushdie (Bombay, 1947) ha sido el revitalizador de la novela india escrita en inglés para el resto del mundo. Ganador de numerosos premios literarios internacionales, y exento apenas de escándalos y persecuciones, como la fetua que el ayatolá Jomeini dictó contra él, es uno de los narradores más reputados de la actualidad.