Salman Rushdie book sales surge after stabbing attack

Salman Rushdie's controversial novel "The Satanic Verses" is climbing the bestseller charts after the author was stabbed.

Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" is climbing the bestseller charts after he was seriously injured in a stabbing attack in western New York last week.

"The Satanic Verses," which provoked an intense backlash from much of the Muslim world when it was published in 1988, rose to No. 8 on Amazon's chart of most-sold fiction books of the week.

The novel does not appear to have ranked in Amazon's top 100 most-sold fiction books before Rushdie was attacked at a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, according to the internet archive Wayback Machine.

Author Salman Rushdie in critical condition after being stabbedAug. 15, 202201:44The sold-out paperback edition of "The Satanic Verses" was the No. 2 bestselling book on Amazon's "Contemporary Fiction and Literature" chart as of Wednesday afternoon. The audiobook version held the No. 14 spot on the tech giant's Audible platform.

The sales spike appeared to be driven, at least in part, by readers and consumers who wanted to show solidarity with Rushdie, who has been the target of death threats for decades — including a fatwa, or edict, from Iran.

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