maco reviewed Salman Rushdie by David Smale
Review of 'Salman Rushdie' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
A winding story surrounding a Bangladeshi and an Indian (Bombay) actor. One, Gibreel, believing himself and potentially becoming the angel Gibreel (Gabriel); the other Saladin becoming a devil. The line between reality and fiction is blurred to the point that it ceases to exist. It brings the same question as "1984": if everyone believes something to be true, does that make it true? If everyone believes a religious event to have occurred, did it? If everyone believes a girl to be a prophet, is she?