It is still August, but more in my Salman Rushdie month. it will be a couple of days longer.

I am reading his autobiography.

The cover name comes from Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov.

The book is written in third person. unusual for an autobiography, but it works. It shows the life in hiding, as if this is not the whole Salman Rushdie, just the Salman Rushdie after ” his fatwa”.

It is well written, witty, sad, clever.

It also explains all the myths about his arrogance, ungratefulness, selfishness, and of course the allegedly unreadable “The Satanic Verses “

I disagree with all this.

The person writing this book does not seem arrogant, selfish, or ungrateful.

And although The Satanic Verses is NOT my favourite Salman Rushdie book, it was a certainly not unreadable, and I never thought about not finishing it. It’s an interesting book.

Most of the people criticising it probably never read it. But even if the book was terrible, it does not justify a death sentence for the author. And it is NOT a terrible book. And Salman Rushdie is a talented writer and it seems, a good man.

I wish him a recovery from the horrible injuries caused by intolerance and hatred.