Salman Rushdie survived the assassination attempt that targeted him, but the consequences are serious.
As the author recovers from his injuries, it was his agent who gave his news to the Spanish newspaper
El Pais
.
And if he could not give precise details on the state in which his client was, he wanted to be reassuring.
“He has about 15 other chest injuries.
It was a brutal attack.
He lost sight in one eye.
He had three serious neck injuries.
He is disabled in one hand as the nerves in his arm were severed,” said Andrew Wylie.
No information
While the journalist questioning the agent to find out if Salman Rushdie was still hospitalized, Andrew Wylie preferred to remain discreet.
“I cannot give any information about his whereabouts.
But he's going to live… That's the most important thing,” he said.
Salman Rushdie was attacked last August before a speech at the Chautauqua Institution in New York.
The writer was stabbed at least 10 times by his assailant.
Still under the influence of a fatwa calling for him to be killed, the author of
Satanic Verses
knew that this kind of aggression was the greatest danger concerning him.
“The main danger he faces so many years after the imposition of the fatwa is that of someone coming out of nowhere and attacking randomly.
So you can't protect yourself against that, because it's completely unexpected and illogical.
It was like the murder of John Lennon,” concluded Andrew Wylie.
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