THE LITERARY LIFE

The Martyr

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of his death sentence, an increasingly desperate Salman Rushdie had made his most public appeal yet for sympathy. Why is nobody listening?

January 1 1993 Philip Weiss Alistair Thain
THE LITERARY LIFE
The Martyr

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of his death sentence, an increasingly desperate Salman Rushdie had made his most public appeal yet for sympathy. Why is nobody listening?

January 1 1993 Philip Weiss Alistair Thain


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