{"product_id":"9780812976717","title":"The Satanic Verses","description":" Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel.  Through the falling debris, two men-Gibreel Farishta, the biggest movie star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years-plummet from the sky.  Washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, they proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully erudite study of the evil and good entwined within the hearts of women and men, an epic journey of tears and laughter, served up by a writer at the height of his powers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: Salman Rushdie is the author of seven novels: \u003ci\u003eGrimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ground Beneath Her Feet\u003c\/i\u003e.  He has also published one work of short stories titled \u003ci\u003eEast, West\u003c\/i\u003e and four works of nonfiction: \u003ci\u003eThe Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMirrorwork\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Elizabeth West).   His books have been published in thirty-seven languages.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015259930864,"sku":"9780812976717","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812976717_p0.jpg?v=1763744867","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812976717","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}