![]() ![]() You choose your Everly, because they don’t get on. Well, you don’t have a weekend with the Everly Brothers. Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location in London, Rushdie, 51, says gleefully, “That something that was designed to exist only on the page should burst into the real world – I like that enormously.” Echoing Rushdie’s blur of fact and fiction, U2 – who brought the writer onstage, in a gesture of solidarity against the fatwa, during a London concert in 1993 – have recorded a new song, “The Ground Beneath Her Feet,” using lyrics written by Rushdie for the book. It is a sprawling fable, an apocalyptic, late-twentieth-century adaptation of the mythical Greek love story of Orpheus and Eurydice, liberally spiced with allusions to real-life superstars such as John Lennon and Madonna. ![]() Rushdie – whose other acclaimed books include Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh – now takes on a different sacred history, the story of rock & roll, in The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Henry Holt and Co.). In 1989, the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death sentence, or fatwa, against Rushdie, claiming that the Indian-born, Muslim-raised author blasphemed Islam in his phantasmagorial novel, The Satanic Verses. For the last decade, Salman Rushdie has lived with a price on his head. ![]()
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