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“An incredible, swirling, entwined story from beginning to end. The novel starts with the downward descent of two men falling from a London-bound jet plane ripped apart by terrorist bomb. The two men's lives are enjoined at this point in time by means of their respective fantastical, surreal solo journeys. One becomes a goat-like satyr, the other has dreams of the archangel Gabriel and Mohammed the prophet. The surrealistic swirling story concludes in a fantastic crescendo, leaving the reader with questions. Who were these two men? Perhaps Rushdie provided clues when he stated that they were "types of self" and "that evil may not be as far beneath our surfaces as we like to say it is. - That, in fact, we fall towards it naturally, that is not against our natures" (p.442f). I found this novel to be more intriguing than "Midnight's Children," and more risqué (hence only 4 stars), and finally, somewhat baffling. I'm baffled as to why it earned Salman Rushdie a fatwa from the Ayatollah Khomeini.”
tapbirds wrote this review Saturday, March 9, 2013.
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