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PEOPLE, Page 80A Book's Not For BurningBy EMILY MITCHELL/Reported by Jeannie Park
When God and the devil get together, there is bound to be
trouble, and that is just what the prizewinning novel The Satanic
Verses, by Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie, 41, has produced. The
book, which begins with an encounter between the two adversaries
on an English beach, has inflamed tempers since its London
publication in September. It was banned in India, Pakistan and
Saudi Arabia because of its "blasphemous" passages, torched by
Muslims in Britain, cited in bomb threats in New York City (where
it will be published by Viking Feb. 22) and was nearly withdrawn
from Britain's largest bookstore chain, for what it claimed were
"purely commercial" reasons. Last week The Satanic Verses was
selling briskly in bookshops, and Rushdie, now a British citizen,
said the hellish affair had been one of "colossal confusion."