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...Salman Rushdie is no stranger to exile, but past experience could hardly have prepared him for what he faces now. In fact, the situation is so preposterous that it might have sprung from Rushdie's own phantasmagoric imagination: someone suddenly emerges as the most talked-about writer in the world, but his life depends on becoming an invisible...
...into hiding. Most of his life has been spent as an outsider, an alien among local populations. He was born in Bombay in 1947, two months before the British pulled out of India; his parents were well-to-do Kashmiri Muslims and admirers of English customs and manners. Young Salman's religion and pale skin made him something of an anomaly in his native city...
...novel, Shame (1983), was another roistering allegory, this time refracting recent events in Pakistan. It too was nominated for the Booker Prize, but at the presentation dinner the award went to another contender. Rushdie raised eyebrows by standing up and protesting the injustice of the decision. "The thing about Salman," says an editor who knows him, "is that if he won the Nobel Prize, he would not be happy until he had won it twice...
COVER: Hunted by an angry faith, novelist Salman Rushdie is at the epicenter of a storm between East and West...
With Khomeini's death sentence hanging over his head, Rushdie issues an apology but remains reviled by millions of Muslims. It is an extraordinary controversy, stretching from the dusty streets of the Middle East to the bookstores of America. -- What Muslims find blasphemous in The Satanic Verses. -- Salman Rushdie, born in Bombay, educated at Cambridge...