Salman Rushdie: Sentenced to Death
Chronicles Rushdie's extraordinary life, reveals how the fierce controversy surrounding "The Satanic Verses" has affected him, and explores the world significance of the Rushdie affair
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Journalist Weatherby offers a clear and sober, non-sensationalistic biography of Rushdie that reveals and clarifies the influential events and people in the writer's life. He also explains and makes even more significant such violent reactions to The Satanic verses as the sentence of death ordered by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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