I have never been to Sarajevo, but I feel that I belong to it, in a way... I... can claim to be, in some sense, an exile from Sarajevo, even though it is a city I do not know. There is a Sarajevo of the mind, an imagined Sarajevo whose ruination and torment exiles us all.


Index on Censorship May/June 1994

Salman Rushdie Quotes

I have never been to Sarajevo, but I feel that I belong to it, in a way... I... can claim to be, in some sense, an exile from Sarajevo, even though...

I have never been to Sarajevo, but I feel that I belong to it, in a way... I... can claim to be, in some sense, an exile from Sarajevo, even though...

I have never been to Sarajevo, but I feel that I belong to it, in a way... I... can claim to be, in some sense, an exile from Sarajevo, even though...

I have never been to Sarajevo, but I feel that I belong to it, in a way... I... can claim to be, in some sense, an exile from Sarajevo, even though...