On August 12, the British-American writer Salman Rushdie received 18 serious stab wounds in an attack during a literary event. As a result, he lost mobility in one hand and vision in his right eye, and was hospitalized for a long time.
This month the magazine The New Yorker published an apology for the author, entitled Salman Rushdie’s Resistancesigned by reporter and editor David Remnick, with a striking black and white portrait by Richard Burbridge, in which the creator of satanic verses he looks directly at the camera through his glasses, with one of the lenses darkened to protect the affected eye, and with a half smile (three stab wounds were in the face).
Rushdie has reinforced his rebellion in the face of the adversity suffered on his Twitter account, in which he has posted his color photo, alleging that “the one from the New Yorker is dramatic and powerful, but more prosaically, this is how i look now”.
The 75-year-old novelist has been threatened that Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued an edict in 1989 calling for his deathjust after it was released to the public satanic verses (1988). It is a book considered blasphemous by many Muslims.
His attacker is Hadi Matara 24-year-old man from New Jersey who has pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder and assault, though he claimed he hated the victim, while the Iranian government denied any involvement.
Rushdie left Twitter in the aftermath of the attack, updating again in December 2022, but these are the first images of what he looks like since his recovery. (AND)
Source: Eluniverso
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