Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

WOW. - from the first page I was astounded, Rushdie writes well, like a next-generation Gabriel Garcia Marquez with epic plots and a style that flows on the quirks and obsessions of life. The religious and cultural references are lost on me, but the images (falling through the sky, singing, rebirth) are from the beginning very basic, and catch my imagination. Magic realism.