Random House Trade</br></br>Product Description</br></br>One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written?? <i>The Satanic Verses</i> is Salman Rushdie??s best-known and mos"alvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles?? the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth?? transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its