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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. It hit number one in the Sunday Times Bestsellers List in the General hardbacks category. [2]
He was born with telepathic powers, as well as an enormous and constantly dripping nose with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. The novel is divided into three books. The first book begins with the story of the Sinai family, particularly with events leading up to the fall of British Colonial India and the partition. Saleem is born precisely ...
The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.It centered on the novel's references to the Satanic Verses (apocryphal verses of the Quran), and came to include a larger debate about censorship and religious violence.
The book's Turkish translator Aziz Nesin was the intended target of a mob of arsonists who set fire to the Madimak Hotel after Friday prayers on 2 July 1993 in Sivas, Turkey, killing 37 people, mostly Alevi scholars, poets and musicians. Nesin escaped death when the fundamentalist mob failed to recognize him early in the attack.
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Questions were raised after the stabbing of Rushdie about security at the event, although a state trooper and a sheriff's officer were present. [105] Michael Hill, president of the Chautauqua Institution, stated that the Institution had ensured that law enforcement officers were present for the event. [ 22 ]
The essay, dedicated to Michael Feingold (a critic of The Village Voice), is divided in three chapters: "The Wind-Chill Factor", "Second Act Problems", and "Three Uses of the Knife". Mamet begins his book by saying that people naturally dramatize everyday occurrences and that life itself is inherently theatrical: "Our survival mechanism orders ...
Knife (Norwegian: Kniv, 2019) is a crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the twelfth in the Harry Hole series. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book is set in Oslo. Plot