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The book recounts the stabbing attack on Rushdie in 2022. It hit number one in the Sunday Times Bestsellers List in the General hardbacks category. [2] Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses had led to a widespread controversy among Muslims, prompting the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran. [3] [4]
Salman Rushdie will be the center of a new documentary from Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director behind “Taxi to the Dark Side” snd “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.”
The 27 seconds refers to the length of the incident in Chautauqua, which Sir Salman called a “long time when someone has a knife”, but added that he never saw the weapon during the attack.
The author also describes “the cruelest blow” – a knife in the eye. “It was a deep wound. The blade went in all the way to the optic nerve, which meant there would be no possibility of ...
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Feature-length project will be based on Salman Rushdie’s life and recovery after he was attacked on stage in 2022
“Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” will be published April 16. “This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art ...
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