That book by this author resulted in the Ayatollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa against him.
This man's first novel is partly set on Calf Island and centers on the 777 year old Flapping Eagle, who seeks mortality. An alias created by this man that combines the first names of Conrad and Chekhov titles a 2014 memoir. This author of Grimus and Joseph Anton wrote a novel about 1,001 babies born in the hour following a certain country's 1947 independence. Another of his books begins with the bombing of a plane that includes the passengers Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta. That book by this author resulted in the Ayatollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa against him. For 10 points, name this Indian-born author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.
This man's first novel is partly set on Calf Island and centers on the 777 year old Flapping Eagle, who seeks mortality.
Salman Rushdie