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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 book isn't dry by any stretch—in fact, it's full of twists, turns, gossip, and cautionary tales—but it's also more than just a tell-all about adjacency to scandal.
Salman Rushdie’s Knife is not for the squeamish. Describing in detail the horrific attack by Hadi Matar on 12 August 2022, the 76-year-old Indian-born British-American author recalls that his ...
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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.
In the new book, Sir Salman describes how “blood began to pour out of my neck. I became aware, as I fell, of liquid splashing onto my shirt. ... Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder ...
The 75th National Book Awards, presented at a ceremony and benefit dinner by the National Book Foundation, took place on November 20, 2024, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City [1]. During the gala, the National Book Foundation presented awards in 5 competitive categories and 2 special categories honoring books released between December 1 ...