The Satanic Verses (Signed)

Indian-born British-American writer Salman Rushdie burst onto the scene with Midnight's Children (1981) a postmodern, magic realist tale set in India that won the Booker Prize and now sits firmly in the postcolonial literary canon. The Satanic Verses (1988) is Rushdie's most famous/infamous work for which he received death threats and a Fatwah post-publication. Rushdie: "Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true."

Book specs

First American Edition, First Printing. Signed. Unclipped, Fine dust jacket. Very minor bumping on upper front board tip. Provenance includes program from a lecture at Eastern Connecticut University in 2011. Tight and square, a stunning copy.