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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]
The 76-year-old discussed surviving the attempt on his life at an event at the Southbank Centre in London on Sunday as he promoted his book Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder, which was ...
The author also describes “the cruelest blow” – a knife in the eye. “It was a deep wound. The blade went in all the way to the optic nerve, which meant there would be no possibility of ...
One of these people was the co-founder of City of Asylum, Henry Reese, onstage at the time, about to begin interviewing Rushdie. [19] During the assault, Reese sustained a shallow knife wound and deep bruising in the vicinity of his right eye. [20] [21] A doctor who was present for the lecture immediately tended to Rushdie. [22]
Fearing unrest, the Rajiv Gandhi government banned the importation of the book into India. [3] [4] In 1989, Supreme Leader of Iran Ruhollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against Rushdie, resulting in several failed assassination attempts on the author, who was granted police protection by the UK government, [5] and attacks on connected individuals ...
On Bookmarks November/December 2012 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Written in the third-person--appropriate for a man who for years couldn't cop to his real identity--the memoir, an invaluable artifact of one of the pivotal ...
His best-known work is the translation of Marcus Aurelius' book, Meditations. He was also a Colonel of the Territorial Army. [1] He also translated Aristotle's Progression of Animals and Movement of Animals, published in 1913. [2] [3] Writer C. S. Lewis described his encounter with Farquharson in a letter of 26 January 1930 to his friend Arthur ...
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