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Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Victory City - A Novel About the Pleasure Principle

There's a lot of me that was just lucky because the amount of injuries were such that it was more probable that I would not survive. And then, if you got stabbed in the neck that you didn't bleed out, there were people putting thumbs over it. So you were saved by a thumb? Yeah, somebody's thumb. Then the helicopter, and then this extraordinary team of surgeons,. You know, there was a 7-8-hour surgery.

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