Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Description: Knife by Salman Rushdie NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From 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 On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, 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 toward 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, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide. Knife is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literatures capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again. CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen novels--Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnights Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moors Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Fury; Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence; Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights; The Golden House; Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize); and Victory City--and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published five works of nonfiction--The Jaguar Smile; Imaginary Homelands; Step Across This Line; Joseph Anton; and Languages of Truth--and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature. Review "Candid, plain-spoken and gripping . . . Knife is a clarifying book. It reminds us of the threats the free world faces. It reminds us of the things worth fighting for."—The New York Times"Knife isnt so much about pondering imminent death than it is an affirmation—an insistence—on returning to life."—San Francisco Chronicle"The subject—the idea for which Rushdie nearly died—is the freedom to say what he wants . . . Rushdie survived, but he has too many scars to be certain that the idea will. This book is his way of fighting back."—The Atlantic"A brave and beautiful book that tells his story with a cathartic relish, no gruesome detail spared . . . this book is as much a love letter to his wife—the poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths—as it is a punch-back at his assailant."—The Wall Street Journal Salman Rushdies memoir is horrific, upsetting—and a masterpiece . . . Knife is a tour-de-force, in which the great novelist takes his brutal near-murder and spins it into a majestic essay on art, pain and love . . . full of Rushdies wit, his wisdom, his stoicism, his optimism, his love of all culture."—Daily Telegraph "Knife is in part about—and in some sense itself is—a battle between the two most prominent Rushdies: Great Writer and Great Man, artist and advocate, private person and public figure . . . Contains some of the most precise, chilling prose of his career."—Vulture"Not just a candid and fearless book but—against all odds—a defiantly witty one . . . A reckoning, if not quite a catharsis, Rushdies invigorating dispatch from (almost) the far side of deaths door names and limits the attack as a large red ink blot."—The Financial Times"Rushdies triumph is not to be other: despite his terrible injuries and the threat he still lives under, he remains incorrigibly himself, as passionate as ever about art and free speech."—The Guardian"Knife is testament to Rushdies convictions and to the sustaining power of love as he focuses on the suffering and support of his family and his wife, writer and artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths, during this ordeal . . . every electrifying page elicits tears and awe."—Booklist"A graceful meditation on life and death that captures Rushdie at his most observant and lyrical."—Kirkus Details ISBN0593946138 Author Salman Rushdie Publisher Random House USA Inc Edition Description Unabridged edition Year 2024 Narrator Salman Rushdie ISBN-13 9780593946138 Imprint Random House US Audio Subtitle Meditations After an Attempted Murder Place of Publication NY Country of Publication United States Audience General Playing time 390 Publication Date 2024-04-30 US Release Date 2024-04-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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