Anglo-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie
will be at the Turin Book Fair, where he will talk with Gomorra
author Roberto Saviano, on Friday 10 May at 6.30 p.m. in the
Auditorium of the Congress Centre, director Annalena Benini
announced Tuesday.
Mumbai-born Rushdie, 76, best known for Midnight's Children
(1981) and The Satanic Verses, which earned him an Iranian death
fatwah in 1988, will present his new book Knife. Meditations
After An Assassination Attempt (Mondadori), in which he relives
for the first time the traumatic attack of 12 August 2022 in New
York, when a deranged man rushed onto the stage and stabbed him
repeatedly, including in the face, neck and abdomen, and left
him with the loss of sight in one eye.
The book recounts the complicated path to physical recovery and
healing thanks to the love and support of his wife Eliza,
family, doctors, physiotherapists and the community of his
readers.
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