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Knife
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  • Published: 6 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529921168
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $28.00
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Knife

Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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Paperback
6 May 2025
Tr. Paperback
16 Apr 2024
EBook
16 Apr 2024
Audiobook
16 Apr 2024
Hardback
16 May 2024
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The Instant Sunday Times #1 Bestseller – a moving, life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie

On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing 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 it’s 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 is an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art – and finding the strength to stand up again.
  • Published: 6 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529921168
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. 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.

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