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A hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur--Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rushdie, Salman
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1989
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Survival > Fiction.
East Indians > England > Fiction.
Good and evil > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
English fiction > 0th century.
Didactic fiction.
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Summary:A hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur--Gibreel 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.
Item Description:The Cushing Library/Basbanes copy contains 1 piece of ephemera.
Physical Description:546 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:0670825379