“ In the name of almighty god. I want to inform all Muslims that the author of the book titled The Satanic Verses , as well as those who published it, have been sentenced to death. I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them quickly, wherever they find them… ” On February 14, 1989, as the Western world discovers the meaning of the word fatwa, Salman Rushdie believes he will never see his son grow up. On Radio Tehran, Ayatollah Khomeini has just launched an appeal to all Muslims to kill the writer and his editors.
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“To write a book is to conclude a Faustian pact in reverse. To gain immortality, or at least to conquer posterity, one loses, or at least one compromises, one's true daily existence. " Throughout writing The Satanic Verses, Rushdie had kept this note pinned above his desk. He had no idea how premonitory these sentences would turn out to be. He could not imagine that his third book
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