Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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What's My Takeaway?
There are things about reading about the empire that were very surprising. The role of women was quite advanced and that women were allowed, were able to be things which even today is difficult. For long periods of time, not always, there were some periods which were more repressive. But I thought that's interesting, that this is the 14th century. Is there some point in the writing of a text where the character... Takes over. Completely. She told me how to write it and how it should go. And she really did. You know exactly what you're doing. I just follow you. As a storyteller.
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