Met almost exactly two weeks before the assassination of Salman Rushdie star-Correspondent Raphael Geiger the writer in New York. The two-hour conversation also focused a lot on fear. But Rushdie wasn’t worried about himself. But about American democracy.
Salman Rushdie came alone this morning. Wearing a gray suit, he walked into his New York agent’s office near Central Park. It had been many years since bodyguards had accompanied him. No, the threat to him was a thing from the past. The Iranian regime’s fatwa, its death sentence, was more than three decades ago. half his life.
Now Rushdie was 75 years old and seemed like an easy-going man. He had just returned from Italy and was looking forward to the summer in New York. He was worried – but no longer about himself, but about America, his adopted country. And so the conversation revolved less around the fatwa, he wasn’t too keen on the subject.