A book its author ‘would much rather not have needed to write’ ranges far beyond his attempted murder and recovery
dreamed about being attacked by a Roman gladiator with a spear. He’d had similar dreams ever since Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa following publication of The Satanic Verses, back in 1989, imagining “my assassin rising up in some public forum or other and coming for me”.
Supportive statements came from presidents Biden and Macron, “grudging platitudes” from Boris Johnson, and nothing at all from India. Most heartening were the messages of love from friends:he urged himself. His sister and sons flew over from London. Above all, there was his wife “Eliza”, the poet and novelist, whom he’d met in a goofy, blood-strewn moment five years before when, dazed by her beauty and following her out on to a balcony, he smashed his face into a sliding glass door .
Transferred to a rehab centre in Manhattan, he hoped for a steady recovery. But there were setbacks: dizziness, low blood pressure, a urinary tract infection, terrible nightmares. The police officers outside his door laughed raucously through the night and there was bandage-changing at 5am. Then came the shock of seeing himself in a mirror for the first time – “this wild-haired one-eyed demi stranger”.
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