What is the author's style in The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie?

The language in The Satanic Verses defines it as a product of Eastern culture. Author Salman Rushdie takes pleasure in crafting dexterous wordplay which is likely to confuse a Western reader. Born an Easterner but educated and transplanted in the West, Rushdie knows how it feels to be an outsider looking in on a different culture. Most literature is written from a Western perspective and Rushdie has turned the tables on Western civilization by writing a book designed to make the Westerner feel like the outsider. Westerners are likely to misunderstand or even completely miss many of the cultural references in the book, although the author explains some references.