Jan 4, 2010
The fatwa issued by the Ayotollah Khomeini on February 14, 1989, has given Salman Rushdie ample reason to be bitter: his novel THE SATANIC VERSES judged blasphemous; its author a hostage kept under round- the-clock police protection; its publisher threatened; translators attacked, one fatally; the breakup of Rushdie’s second marriage; an embarrassing attempt to appease his enemies; the seeming slightness of two subsequent books—HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES (1990), a fable, and EAST, WEST (1994), a collection of short stories. THE MOOR’S LAST SIGH shows that Rushdie is back at...
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