Salman Rushdie has recounted his thoughts on his 2022 near death in a book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
The novelist has recounted his thoughts on his 2022 near death in a book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. “I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up in some public forum or other, and coming for me in just this way. So my first thought when I saw this murderous shape rushing towards me was, ‘So it’s you. Here you are.’“
Iran’s revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 issued a fatwa calling on Muslims to kill Rushdie, who went into hiding in Britain. He has since become a naturalised American.
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