Months after being stabbed repeatedly as he prepared to give a lecture, Salman Rushdie is blind in his right eye, struggles to write and, at times, has 바카라frightening바카라 nightmares.
But, he said during his first interview since the attack, he still has a feeling of gratitude.
바카라Well, you know, I've been better,바카라 he told The New Yorker's David Remnick during an interview published on Monday. 바카라But, considering what happened, I'm not so bad."
바카라The big injuries are healed, essentially," Rushdie went on to describe. "I have feeling in my thumb and index finger and in the bottom half of the palm. I'm doing a lot of hand therapy, and I'm told that I'm doing very well.바카라
Attack on Rushdie
Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of Booker Prize-winning novel 'Midnight바카라s Children바카라, said on Monday that he feels lucky to have survived the last year바카라s brutal stabbing at a literary event in the US as he spoke for the first time about the 바카라colossal attack바카라.
The 75-year-old British American novelist was giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York 바카라 where he is based 바카라 on August 12 last year when a man stormed the stage and stabbed and punched him several times.
Remnick, who spoke with Rushdie both in person at his agent's office in Manhattan and via Zoom, wrote that the Booker Prize-winning author had lost more than 40 pounds (18 kilograms) and mostly reads through an iPad so he can adjust the lighting and font size.
"There is scar tissue on the right side of his face,바카라 Remnick wrote. 바카라He speaks as fluently as ever, but his lower lip droops on one side. The ulnar nerve in his left hand was badly damaged.바카라
Rushdie, 75, lived in hiding for years after Iran's Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa in 1989 calling for his death because of the alleged blasphemy of the novel 바카라The Satanic Verses.바카라 But he had long since moved about freely, with minimal security, and did not feel any sense of risk last August about appearing at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center in western New York.
Rushdie was on stage when approached by a young man dressed in black and carrying a knife. The alleged assailant, Hadi Matar, has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and attempted murder.
What did Rushdie say in the interview?
During his New Yorker interview, Rushdie referred to Matar as an "idiot,바카라 but otherwise said he felt no anger.
바카라I've tried very hard over these years to avoid recrimination and bitterness,바카라 he said. 바카라I just think it's not a good look. One of the ways I've dealt with this whole thing is to look forward and not backwards. What happens tomorrow is more important than what happened yesterday.바카라
The interview came out on the eve of the publication of Rushdie's new novel, 바카라Victory City,바카라 which he completed a month before he was attacked. Featuring a protagonist who lives to be 247, 바카라Victory바카라 is a characteristically surreal and exuberant narrative about an imagined ancient poem that has received highly favourable reviews, with The Washington Post's Ron Charles writing that 바카라Rushdie's magical style unfurls wonders.바카라
Rushdie had been silent for months on social media, but now tweets on occasion and even responds to insults. When a tweeter last week told him he was living a 바카라disgraceful life,바카라 Rushdie answered, 바카라Oh, another fan! So pleased.바카라
During his interview, he noted ruefully that sales for his book had soared after the stabbing, as if he were more popular when in danger.
바카라Now that I've almost died, everybody loves me,바카라 he said. "That was my mistake, back then. Not only did I live but I tried to live well. Bad mistake. Get 15 stab wounds, much better.바카라
On Monday, he tweeted a picture of himself, staring directly into the camera lens 바카라 his face thinner than in photos from before the stabbing, his right eye covered by a dark lens in his glasses frame.
He is otherwise still trying to recover. Rushdie has written that he initially had difficulty writing fiction after the fatwa, and he is having a hard time now, saying that he will sit down to work and 바카라nothing happens," just a 바카라combination of blankness and junk".
One project he may attempt: a follow-up to his 2012 memoir 바카라Joseph Anton,바카라 which he wrote in the third person.
바카라This doesn't feel third-person-ish to me,바카라 Rushdie said of a possible sequel. 바카라I think when somebody sticks a knife into you, that's a first-person story. That's an I' story.바카라
(With AP inputs)
