7/4/2023 0 Comments The british are coming book![]() His alleged assailant, Hadi Matar, has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and attempted murder. Rushdie, 75, was blinded in one eye and suffered nerve damage to his hand when he was attacked at a literary festival in New York state in August. ![]() It is quite remarkably alarming, and we need to be very aware of it, and to fight against it very hard.” “The attack on the idea of libraries themselves. “Now I am sitting here in the U.S., I have to look at the extraordinary attack on libraries, and books for children in schools,” he said. He said that “we live in a moment, I think, at which freedom of expression, freedom to publish has not in my lifetime been under such threat in the countries of the West.” Organizers said the honor “acknowledges the determination of authors, publishers and booksellers who take a stand against intolerance, despite the ongoing threats they face.” ![]() The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy, 3) by Rick Atkinson Paperback. Rushdie delivered a video message to the British Book Awards, where he was awarded the Freedom to Publish award on Monday evening. Ships from and sold by Book Depository US. ![]()
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