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The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's sixth novel. Published in 1999, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth, with rock music replacing Orpheus's lyre.The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to which he attaches an endless series of references.
On August 12, 2022, novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times as he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States. [4] [5] [6] A 24-year-old suspect, Hadi Matar, was arrested directly and charged the following day with assault and attempted murder.
Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno. " The Ground Beneath Her Feet " is a song by Irish rock band U2. It appears in the 2000 film The Million Dollar Hotel, which was produced by U2 lead vocalist Bono, and the song was included on the film's soundtrack. Author Salman Rushdie is credited as the lyricist, as the words are taken from his 1999 book The Ground ...
In Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliving the day he thought might be his last. “At a quarter ...
His press tour has its own revelations. Salman Rushdie's new memoir, "Knife," hits shelves on Tuesday, two years after he was nearly killed in a stabbing attack. (Evan Agostini / Invision ...
Rushdie lost his vision in his right eye and the use of one hand after being repeatedly stabbed on stage last August. The man accused of stabbing him, Hadi Matar, will stand trial on 8 January 2024.
9780593730249. Website. Penguin Random House. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in April 2024 by Jonathan Cape. [1] The book recounts the stabbing attack on Rushdie in 2022. It hit number one in the Sunday Times Bestsellers List in the General ...
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) is a riff on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, casting Orpheus and Eurydice as rock stars. The book features many original song lyrics; one was the basis for the U2 song "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Rushdie is credited as the lyricist. Rushdie presenting his 2005 novel Shalimar the Clown