Salman Rushdie: after the attack, sales of the novel "The Satanic Verses" soar

Marie Gicquel, edited by Gauthier Delomez 8:43 p.m., August 15, 2022

A novel that is acclaimed after the attack on Salman Rushdie on Friday in the United States.

Sales of

, the source of the British writer's fatwa launched 33 years ago, have soared since his assassination attempt at a conference in New York State .

The autobiographical novel is among the best sellers online and in bookstores, as a symbol of solidarity with the author.

Solidarity expressed on social networks

On social networks, many Internet users are calling to buy the work of the British writer.

His book is also out of stock on some sites.

Caroline will only receive it in about ten days.

"I felt carried by a form of solidarity, and I said to myself that it was obvious that I had to acquire this book and that I put it in my library", she explains at the microphone. Europe 1.

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Caroline assures that she will read Salman Rushdie's book "before putting it down, so that it stays there as a sign that freedom of expression must be respected and that people who fight for freedom must be protected. expression,” she says.

The support of another writer targeted by blasphemy

In his novel

, Salman Rushdie recounts the adventures of two Indian migrants who land in the United Kingdom.

This is a very rich story that combines autobiographical references, real facts and daydreams about a specific passage from the Koran that has been erased, the one where the Prophet would have been tempted by the devil to recognize the existence of gods other than Allah.

For the Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel, supported by Salman Rushdie and also threatened and prosecuted for blasphemy, the novel takes on other themes.

His word is precious, and his spirit is shocked.

"It is above all a novel about exile, about identity. The passages on the city of London are quite numerous, and these are very beautiful descriptions", he comments to Europe 1 "It is inadmissible that a country like Iran, that a member state of the UNO, condemns a writer to death. What era are we living in?" it is a novel, a parody", adds the Turkish author.

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Other books by Salman Rushdie see their sales increase, such as his

story , also autobiographical, where the British author returns to this fatwa launched against him.