Opening with those characters embracing each other and performing "geminate cartwheels" as they fall from an Air India jet that has been blown up by Sikh terrorists, it follows the transformation of Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha.
The two main characters meet the widow Rosa Diamond, and while one character becomes the gaucho Martin de la Cruz in order to serve her, the other is taken to an illegal immigrant detention center and finds his friend Jumpy Joshi. Opening with those characters embracing each other and performing "geminate cartwheels" as they fall from an Air India jet that has been blown up by Sikh terrorists, it follows the transformation of Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha. For 10 points, name this novel whose alternative take on the Quran and the life of Mohammed earned a fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini for its author, Salman Rushdie.
The two main characters meet the widow Rosa Diamond, and while one character becomes the gaucho Martin de la Cruz in order to serve her, the other is taken to an illegal immigrant detention center and finds his friend Jumpy Joshi.
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