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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's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses had led to a widespread controversy among Muslims, prompting the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran. [3] [4]
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 ...
4/5 ‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’ details the attempt on the Indian-born British-American’s life in 2022 Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support ...
He released Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder earlier this year, in which he recounts the attack on stage. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Knife, a 2019 novel by Jo Nesbø; Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, a 2024 memoir by Salman Rushdie; Knife, a 2009 novel by R. J. Anderson and the first novel in the Faery Rebels series; The Knife, a 1961 novel by Hal Ellson
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.
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.
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