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New Salman Rushdie Book Due in June
by Jarrett Martineau | January 10, 2008 at 05:33 pm | 647 views | 2 comments
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Since the fatwa-scale firestorm of controversy erupted over the publication of The Satanic Verses, Sir Salman Rushdie has demonstrated that he is not only a provocative, but also a masterfully talented and versatile writer. His forthcoming novel "The Enchantress of Florence" will be published in June.
A new novel by author Salman Rushdie will be published in June in, publisher Random House said on Thursday.
Rushdie, 60, is best known for his novel "The Satanic Verses," which outraged many Muslims and prompted death threats that forced him to live in hiding for nine years.
His new novel, "The Enchantress of Florence," is an historical novel set in Renaissance Florence and the court of the great Mughal Empire. It follows the tale of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world.
"This new novel marks a bold departure for Salman Rushdie in terms of setting and subject matter," said Will Murphy, Rushdie's editor at Random House, in a statement. Rushdie's last novel "Shalimar the Clown" was published in 2005. [...]
The late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's supreme religious leader, pronounced a fatwa, or religious edict, in 1989 that called on Muslims to kill Rushdie because of perceived blasphemy in his fourth novel, "The Satanic Verses."
In June he was selected for a knighthood by Britain's Queen Elizabeth, again angering some Muslims in Iran and Pakistan.
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January 10, 2008 at 05:33 pm by Jarrett Martineau, 647 views, 2 comments
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at 17:39 on January 10th, 2008
Nice. He out-vocabs native English speakers, which pisses some people off.
at 18:14 on January 10th, 2008
I added a video of Rushide reading from The Satanic Verses. His novels Shame, Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses and Haroon and the Sea Stories are excellent. I saw read from Satanic Verses when it first came out, before the Fatwa controvsersy. It was great I read that novel before all of that, free from the political crap.