Salman Rushdie stabbing trial: Excerpts from Satanic Verses author’s testimony about harrowing knife attack
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Salman Rushdie stabbing trial: Excerpts from Satanic Verses author’s testimony about harrowing knife attack

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The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Hitting and slashing.” “I was struggling to get away from him and I was struck a number of times more on my chest and torso and around my waist,” the author said. “It was a stab wound in my eye and intensely painful, and after that, I was screaming because of the pain and I couldn’t see out of the eye any more," Rushdie said. “I am surprised,” Rushdie said, joking that it was “my most important work.” The only hint at a possible defense strategy was a question about whether trauma can affect memories. I didn’t need to be told by anybody.” After 17 days in a hospital and weeks of rehab, Rushdie hasn't fully recovered “I think I’m not quite at 100%.

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