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Salman Rushdie · 1988
A magical realist novel following two men who fall from a plane and survive, exploring themes of migration, identity, religion, and modern life through interconnected narratives blending the fantastical with the contemporary.
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What this book knows
Identity, faith, and selfhood shatter and reconstitute when migrant bodies fall between the sacred and the profane.
embodiment
The most profane of faces, the most sensual of faces… inextricably mixed up with holiness, perfection, grace: God stuff.
SV-RC-014self-and-identity
After he departed the ubiquitous images of his face began to rot… drooping further and further until his irises looked like two moons sliced by clouds.
SV-RC-013Salahuddin virtually lifted him to his feet, and was astonished at Changez's lightness. This had always been a weighty man.
SV-RC-429faith-and-doubt
Mahound… became obsessed by law. Gibreel appeared to the Prophet and found himself spouting rules, rules, rules, until the faithful could scarcely bear any more revelation.
SV-RC-301Is he vengeance or forgiveness? Should the fatal trumpet remain in his pocket, or should he take it out and blow?
SV-RC-381The miners could not avoid the idea that God had taken Ayesha's side… the rainstorm redoubled its force, and then doubled it again.
SV-RC-405Illuminates
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