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Salman Rushdie talks about his life and work with Christopher Bigsby, three years after the fatwa issued against him by the Ayatollah Khomeini for his novel, The Satanic Verses. He reflects on the importance of fiction, why he thinks purity is the "most dangerous idea in the world", his earlier novels Grimus, Midnight's Children and Shame, and on the personal cost to him of the fatwa. Note: Audio begins @1:43
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