Status Updates From Os Versículos Satânicos

Saladin grows more goat-like while hiding away in a B&B led by Bangladeshian emigrants. Like him, the other residents hide from attention. The daughters of the owner face the same challenge of not belonging as they want to. Lifes on the visible but unseen backside of London.
Just when the city is prepared for his arrival as devil, he transforms again in a massive outburst of anger.

Every second chapter is a dream sequence in which the Gibreel of "reality" becomes the archangel Gibreel. Reality Gibreel tries to avoid sleep due to these successive dreams haunting him.
In the second dream he first is called by an Imam in exile in London (probably Khomeini) to fight against Ayesha, an enemy of his. Then, he appears to Ayesha back when she was a poor orphan girl in muslim India/Pakistan.

After falling from the sky, Saladin physically turned into satan with sulfurous breath, horns and hoofs, got detained by immigration police, beaten up and ended in a ward with other mutants. Contrarily, Gibreel got a golden glow and charms everyone, lost his previously sulfurous breath and relives the 30s in Argentina with the widow who took him in. Not only in narration but in visions coming true through his navel.