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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in April 2024 by Jonathan Cape. [1] The book recounts the stabbing attack on Rushdie in 2022.
Apr 16, 2024 · As Rushdie observes in “Knife,” subtitled “Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” he had sometimes pictured his “public assassin” turning up. But the timing of the 2022 attack seemed not just startling, but “anachronistic,” the rising of a “murderous ghost from the past,” returning to settle a score Rushdie thought long ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Knife is Rushdie writing with urgency, gravity, and unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature’s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable. This an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art – and finding the strength to stand up again. Read more.
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Apr 17, 2024 · NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Salman Rushdie about his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
Apr 16, 2024 · In his new memoir “Knife,” Salman Rushdie recounts the harrowing stabbing that nearly killed him in August 2022, and his physical and emotional recovery in the time since.
At quarter to eleven on August 12,2022, on sunny Friday morning Salman Rushdie was standing at the Chautauqua institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black clothes with black mask sprint toward him and attacked through knife.
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Apr 16, 2024 · On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black—black clothes, black mask—rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you.
