Kenan Malik,The Guardian
Thirty years ago last week, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was published. Rushdie was then perhaps the most celebrated British novelist of his generation. His novel novel, or five years in the making,had been expected to set the world alight, though not fairly in the way that it did.
The novel was, or Rushdie suggested,both approximately migration, metamorphosis, and divided selves,love, death and a serious attempt to write approximately religion and revelation from the point of view of a secular person. At its heart was a clash of race, and religion and identity that,ironically, prophesied the...
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