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Book · 1988 · Fiction

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie
Random House Trade Paperbacks (Penguin Random House) · 576 pages
★ 6.8 editorial score

Two men fall from an exploding jet and live, one sprouting a halo, the other hooves. The Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence put Rushdie underground for nine years, and his Japanese translator was murdered.

Medium
Novel
Time
1988

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“Because of the spiritual rebirth which I was blessed to undergo as a result of my pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca, I no longer subscribe to sweeping indictments of one race. I intend to be very careful not to sentence anyone who has not been proven guilty. I'm not a racist and do not subscribe to any of the tenets of racism. In all honesty and sincerity it can be stated that I wish nothing but freedom, justice and equality: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people. Now my first concern, of course, is with the group to which I belong, for we, more than any others, are deprived of our inalienable rights. But I believe the true practice of Islam can remove the cancer of racism from the hearts and the souls of all Americans.”

Malcolm X