Has Sebastian Faulks talked his way out of becoming the next
Salman Rushdie?
Well, no. You can’t imagine it ever having got that far. But
reactions to his comments on Islam have meant that his novel A
Week In December (reviewed in next month’s Third
Way), was launched to a fanfare of furious
backpedalling.
In the novel, the son of rich British Muslims is drawn to
terrorism, and Faulks told the Times how he read the Qu’ran as
research: ’It’s a depressing book. …
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