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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]
Rushdie, 76, lost vision in one eye and was left incapacitated in one hand after the attempted murder. Gibney’s “Knife” will explore Rushdie’s recovery “in the broadest sense ...
The book, subtitled Meditations After an Attempted Murder, contains newsworthy revelations, including that he was so “transfixed” by the sight of his oncoming attacker that he made no attempt ...
Sir Salman Rushdie has laid bare his horror at lying in “a spectacular quantity of blood” after the frenzied onstage attack that very nearly claimed his life two years ago.. The British-Indian ...
Rushdie, an Indian-born British-American, has been threatened with death since 1989, a year after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, when the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his assassination and set a bounty of $3 million for his death. For years, Rushdie had lived in hiding, taking ...
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 ...
Matar’s trial was initially set for January 8, 2024, but was delayed so his defense could try to obtain information connected to Rushdie’s new memoir “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted ...
Rushdie doesn’t know if he wants to face his attacker in court: ‘A bit of me that just can’t be bothered’