Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**

A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie

A masterpiece Extraordinary Daily Telegraph
A story of hatred defeated by love Guardian

On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black black clothes, black mask rushed down the aisle towards him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So its you. Here you are.

What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey of healing and recovery.

This an intimate meditation on life, loss, love, art and finding the strength to stand up again

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, INDEPENDENT, EVENING STANDARD, NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER AND TIME

An incandescent book about love and hard-won survival
The Times

Salman Rushdie is a genius A brave book by a brave man
Evening Standard

Gripping It reminds us of the things worth fighting for
New York Times

No.1 Sunday Times bestseller, April 2024

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DIMENSION : 199 mm x 130 mm
WEIGHT : 164 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
Philosophy & Religion
Society & Social Sciences