Knife Signed Edition
Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:16th Apr '24
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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.
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 *
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 *
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* *
A testament to endurance and the power of writing * Esquire, *Books to Look Out For 2024* *
A gripping, personal and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art – and finding the strength to stand up again * News Letter, *Books to Look Out For 2024* *
ISBN: 9781787334793-S
Dimensions: 240mm x 156mm x 40mm
Weight: 750g
224 pages