Sales of Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” have surged in the days after the Indian-born writer was attacked and stabbed multiple times in New York state on Aug. 12.
Readers have been purchasing the novel in solidarity with the badly injured author, even as the Iranian regime, which called for his assassination, doubles down on incendiary remarks at his expense.
The 34-year-old novel peaked at the second place spot on Amazon for fiction paperbacks in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
The attack follows a decades-long controversy over “The Satanic Verses”, which takes its name from an incident in which the prophet Mohammad supposedly mistook the word of Satan as divine revelation, prompting him to add now-redacted verses to the Quran….