Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Author(s): Salman Rushdie

Biography & Memoir | Winter Reading Guide 2024 | April 2024 New Releases

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.


Product Information

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 *

General Fields

  • : 9781787334809
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 700.0
  • : 31 March 2024
  • : 234mm x 153mm x 234mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 224
  • : Paperback
  • : Salman Rushdie