At the time of writing, the book is now number five on Amazon's overall best sellers for fiction and is number one in their Celtic, English & Welsh Myths & Legends section. It would appear that people have indeed done that as sales of the book have soared in the past 48 hours.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Rushdie, many people encouraged others to go out and buy a copy of The Satanic Versus in a show of solidarity. However, it has since been confirmed by Rushdie's agent, Andrew Wylie, that he was now off a ventilator and is able to talk. His nerves were severed in one arm and damage to his liver and may lose one eye. Rushdie was stabbed 10 times while speaking at the Chautauqua Institution and was placed on a ventilator while being treated for his wounds. As a result, a 'fatwa' calling for Rushdie's death was placed and the author has been facing death threats ever since. The 75-year-old wrote the surrealist book in 1988 but was immediately hit with criticism as some Muslim nations, most notably Iran, deemed the book to be blasphemous against their religion. Sales of Salman Rushdie's controversial book The Satanic Verses have skyrocketed since the India-born-British novelist was stabbed on stage in New York on Friday.
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