Salman Rushdie unable to see from one eye or use one hand after attack, agent says

Salman Rushdie's agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack by a man who rushed the stage at one of the author's August literary events in western New York, according to a published report.

Literary agent Andrew Wylie told the Spanish language newspaper El País in an article published Saturday that Rushdie suffered three serious wounds to his neck and 15 more to his chest and torso in the attack, which left him unable to see from one eye and unable to use one hand.

Rushdie, 75, spent years in hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his death after the publication of his novel "The Satanic Verses." Some Muslims consider the book blasphemous. Over the past two decades, Rushdie has traveled freely.