The author’s condition is now stable and he is on the “road to recovery.” His assailant, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, was arrested at the scene. Rushdie was assaulted during a lecture in Chautauqua, New York, on Friday, suffering stab wounds to his neck, face, liver, and chest. Steph Opitz, the director of strategic partnerships at, reports that “searches for The Satanic Verses and Salman Rushdie jumped over 10,000 percent last week, with The Satanic Verses hitting our top 10 most-searched-for books and No. Similarly, Rushdie’s 1981 Booker Prize–winning novel Midnight’s Children sits at No. “Let’s get this one back up the charts,” declared another. You will not win,” read one recent five-star review. “I just bought this book in response to extremists who try to silence people. 2 seller in “Contemporary Literature & Fiction” on Amazon and the No. After the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie last Friday, readers took to social media and magazines to say they were seeking out his work, especially his controversial 1988 magical-realist novel The Satanic Verses that led to a fatwa calling for his murder.Īs of Wednesday morning, The Satanic Verses was the No. When someone doesn’t want you to read a particular book, it’s a pretty good sign that you should do just that. Photo: Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
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