Reuters has reported that he is in surgery, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said Rushdie is “getting the care he needs”. Police have said that Rushdie was apparently stabbed in the neck, but stated that the motive and the weapon used in the attack are still unknown.
He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov - Joseph Anton.Author Salman Rushdie has been hospitalised after he was attacked earlier today at an event in New York state. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. The story of how Salman Rushdie was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. What happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding.-From publisher description He shares the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and the close bonds he formed with his protectors of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers and of how he regained his freedom.
How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for over nine years? How does he go on working? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, and how does he learn to fight back? In this memoir, Rushdie tells for the first time the story of his crucial battle for freedom of speech. Asked to choose an alias that the police could use, he thought of combinations of the names of writers he loved Conrad and Chekhov Joseph Anton. His crime? Writing a novel, The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being ""against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran."" So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground for more than nine years, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. Xii, 636 pages 25 cm On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a call from a journalist informing him that he had been ""sentenced to death"" by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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