The heavy price of an unpopular book.
Author Salman Rushdie's 1988 novelThe Satanic Verses, that earned him not accolades, but I death sentence, pronounced by Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Rushdie spent the next several years essentially in hiding, but gradually re-emerged in public, and by 2002 was again going on author tours.
In this 2002 interview Rushdie reflects on his exile, his literature, and his sense of humor.


Get Step Across This Line: by Salman Rushdie


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