For 10 points, Salman Rushdie received a fatwa for writing what novel?
Characters in this novel argue over a story in which a man never forgives a woman for breaking a garish vase she gave him. A bird-obsessed man in this novel kills an ostrich to woo a woman, who dies after dancing on her eighty-ninth birthday. The black activist Uhuru Simba is wrongfully arrested for the Granny Ripper murders in this novel, and the day after a man is thought dead, his wife makes love to his friend Jumpy Joshi. "To be born again, first you have to die" is a refrain in this novel, in which (*) Mahound conquers Jahilia in even chapters. Ayesha leads pilgrims into the sea in this novel, in which the protagonist kills his mountaineer girlfriend Allie Cone. A plane exploding over the English Channel causes Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha to turn into an angel and a devil in this novel. For 10 points, Salman Rushdie received a fatwa for writing what novel?
Characters in this novel argue over a story in which a man never forgives a woman for breaking a garish vase she gave him.
metaethics [prompt on “ethics,” generously prompt on “metaphysics”; prompt on more specific issues like “moral epistemology” or “moral psychology”; do not prompt on viewpoints like “moral nihilism”]