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Salman Rushdie Novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ Sold In India For First Time In 36 Years
Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Satanic Verses' is being sold in India for the first time in 36 years.
The novel, which forced the India-born author into hiding after its publication in 1988, has gone on sale at Bahrisons Booksellers in New Delhi, and the news has been met warmly by members of India’s publishing community. Bahrisons this week posted on social media saying ‘ The Satanic Verses ‘ was in stock and the Guardian quoted a source from the bookseller saying sales had been “very good” and that it was “selling out.” Several posters who appear to be based in India responded to the bookshop on X asking how they could order copies. Manasi Subramaniam, Editor-in-Chief at Penguin Random House India, posted a line from the book in which Rushdie writes, “Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.” She added: “At long last.
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