Knife - Meditations After an Attempted Murder

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art - and finding the strength to stand up again.

About the author

Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

Product details

• Authors: Salman Rushdie
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2024
• EAN: 9781787334793
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-479-3
• No. of pages: 209
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 242 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, ART / Art & Politics, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Autobiography: writers, Violence and abuse in society