Knife

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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.

©2024 Salman Rushdie (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

  • With both candour and rich detail, and reminding us again of his knack for storytelling, Knife celebrates art and love over violence, resilience over acquiescence

    i, *Books to Look Out for 2024*
  • Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year… The length of the book, and its wealth of quotidian detail, serve to draw the reader into the life that Rushdie was forced to lead, to make his isolation and fear palpable

    Washington Post
  • Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb

    The Times
  • The literary map of India is about to be redrawn… Midnight’s Children sounds like a continent finding its voice

    New York Times
  • Salman Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air

    New York Times Book Review

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