![]() ![]() His second marriage, to the US author Marianne Wiggins, is rivetingly poisonous. ![]() Flitting from one friend's holiday home to the next, financially drained, unable to see his son, constantly in the company of the police and battling to publish the British paperback of The Satanic Verses: it sounds like hell. To others again, it will be a painful account of the collapse of Rushdie's private life under extraordinary pressure. To others, it will read as an account of a time when, briefly, fiction seemed to exist at the heart of a global debate. On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie received a te. For some, it will read as a kind of thriller: despite the bombing of many bookshops, a fatwa renewed every Valentine's Day, and genuine danger played down by many on the right, the author survives and continues to publish. Read 1,291 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]() How the "nice, quiet" Indian boy, bullied at Rugby yet obstinate in his determination to stand up for his principles, became an advertising copywriter, then a celebrated novelist and then a renowned terrorist target is an astounding story. ![]()
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