Once upon a time, it was and it wasn't, it happened once and never, as the Indian fairy tales said...

Gabriel with the angelic face leaves the country he loves and heads towards a place he deeply despises. Saladin with the thousand and one voices leaves behind a country that wounds him to return to his refuge, the cold calm of Western civilization. One follows a dreamlike woman, the other tries to escape the allure of a woman who stands firmly on her feet...

Books have their fate. Some are lost in oblivion, some are condemned to the fire, others change our lives, our opinion of what is Good and what is Evil.

The value of the novel "The Satanic Verses" was almost overshadowed by the scandal caused by the brutal order to execute its author. Today, the book is read not as a scandalous and ephemeral product, but as a major intellectual creation, multifaceted and significant.

Playing with all narrative genres, Rushdie gifts us a modern fairy tale, filled with fragrant phrases, with paragraphs that dance, with words that sing. Sometimes with stormy rhythms and sometimes with a soft, low voice, Rushdie tells us about magical girls who dream with their eyes open, Bollywood stars who transform into angels, actors who become horned demons, immigrants who lose their identity, poets who oppose authority and find asylum in exquisite brothels, women who cry tears of milk.

The much-discussed novel by Salman Rushdie, which almost cost him his life, now in our hands. The great storyteller and wordsmith, in his most powerful book.