Salman Rushdie has lost the use of an eye and cannot move one hand as a result of a stabbing attack he suffered at a speaking event in upstate New York in August, according to the author’s agent Andrew Wylie.
The 75-year-old Rushdie, who has lived under a death threat from Iran for several decades, suffered multiple stab wounds to the neck, chest and torso and was airlifted by helicopter for emergency surgery after the incident.
“[His wounds] were profound, but he’s [also] lost the sight of one eye,” Wylie told the Spanish newspaper El País. “One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut. And he has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso.”
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