The Satanic Verses by Rushdie, Salman published by The Viking Press (1989) Hardcover

THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie, Viking, 1988, First Edition, Ninth, (9th) Printing. This is a, Collectible, Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket. Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Through the debris of limbs, drink trolleys, memories, blankets, and oxygen masks, two figures fall toward the sea. Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, self-made, self and Anglophile supreme. Clinging to eachother, singing rival songs, they plunge downward, and are finally washed up alive, on the snow-covered sands of an English beach. A Very Powerfully Moving Novel!