Months after recovering from a fatal attack, Salman Rushdie plans to write about it in his next book
International best-selling novelist Salman Rushdie is recovering after a violent attack that he endured in New York on August 12, 2022. “I’m getting there. The human body has a remarkable capacity for healing. I wouldn’t say I’m 100% back, but I’m on the way,” Rushdie told Time in a recent interview.
Rushdie also said that while his rehabilitation would take longer, he wouldn’t fully return to normal afterward. . “The eye is not coming back. The eye is lost. The hand that was badly damaged is recovering quite well with a lot of therapy. And the other wounds are getting better. There’s a lot of therapy that’s needed. Obviously, there was a quite a lot of PTSD. But I’m getting better,” he told.
The Booker Prize-winning novelist also mentioned that he wants to write about the assault in his upcoming book because it will help him get over it. “Finding a means to write about what happened is something I’m doing, among other things. Whatever is released after that is almost certainly going to be a text about it. That strikes me as a method of sort of taking control of it. I’m still figuring out the specifics. I’m working on it, but I can’t say much more than that,” Rushdie said in the interview. “It’s my aim to do it.
Rushdie is listed as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2023 by Time magazine. Among the other authors on the list are Colleen Hoover, Padma Lakshmi, Neil Gaiman, and Suzan-Lori Parks.
Rushdie’s most recent book, “Victory City,” was published a few months after the assault on him in 2022. The story takes place in southern India in the year 14th.
‘Midnight’s Children’, ‘Quichotte’, and ‘Joseph Anton: A Memoir’ are just a few of Rushdie’s other well-known books.
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