Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail (2019)

January 8th, 20190h 55min

Documentary, TV Movie
66%

Overview

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.


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