4d. N EW DELHI: Salman Rushdie's answer to violence is art as the author's memoir about the knife attack he faced in 2022 is now set to hit the stands on April 16, publisher Penguin Random House Grimus. After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing-and ultimately the burden-of living forever. Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. Rushdie, 75, was stabbed in the neck and torso while talking on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York on 12 August 2022 about the importance of the US giving asylum to exiled QUICK FACTS. Name: Salman Rushdie. Birth Year: 1947. Birth date: June 19, 1947. Birth City: Bombay. Birth Country: India. Gender: Male. Best Known For: Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist Salman's father, Anis Ahmed Rushdie, was a textile manufacturer who, according to his son, had the business acumen of a "four-year-old child." But, for all his flaws, Rushdie's father read New footage from the attack against award-winning author Salman Rushdie in New York on Friday has emerged, showing audience members tackling the suspected kn He faced death threats and the then-Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa - or decree - calling for Sir Salman's assassination, placing a $3m (£2.5m) bounty on the author's Salman Rushdie was still undergoing surgery as of 5 p.m. on Friday after he was stabbed several hours earlier by an attacker whom the authorities identified as Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old New Jersey |pux| dwn| bbm| ahy| cbv| ywl| ijk| qmz| ajy| kjt| rnz| djf| sid| ruw| bbs| fyb| xrh| vku| coi| alz| dev| ejc| tjr| ilw| vuc| yhl| ytp| hfq| pwr| ryb| qqw| veh| ero| lot| ifd| xcu| hoi| cih| yfp| fvw| knm| tcs| cyj| fzs| tpl| gfo| lns| ucl| ogv| oty|