Another of his novels includes a sequence about a woman who attempts to walk across the (*) Arabian Sea with her followers.
In a novel by this author, the leader of a coup in Lilliput-Blefuscu dresses up as Commander Akasz, a character created by the protagonist. That protagonist, who moves to New York after an incident in which he stands over his wife Eleanor with a knife before deciding not to kill her, is a professor-turned-dollmaker who becomes famous for his creation "Little Brain." Another of his novels includes a sequence about a woman who attempts to walk across the (*) Arabian Sea with her followers. That sequence is presented as the dream of a voiceover artist, like a controversial sequence about a prophet known as "the Messenger." In that novel, a hijacked plane blows up over the English Channel, but both Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta miraculously survive. For 10 points, name this author of Fury and The Satanic Verses.
In a novel by this author, the leader of a coup in Lilliput-Blefuscu dresses up as Commander Akasz, a character created by the protagonist.
(Sir Ahmed) Salman Rushdie