Salman Rushdie Book Sales Surge in Aftermath of Assassination Attempt

Salman Rushdie Book Sales Surge in Aftermath of Assassination Attempt
Salman Rushdie attends the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York on Nov. 15, 2017. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
Nicholas Dolinger
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Sales of Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” have surged in the days after the Indian-born writer was attacked and stabbed multiple times in New York state on Aug. 12.

Readers have been purchasing the novel in solidarity with the badly injured author, even as the Iranian regime, which called for his assassination, doubles down on incendiary remarks at his expense.