Salman Rushdie on his knife attack: ‘That’s a lot of blood, I thought. I’m dying’
Sir Salman Rushdie has laid bare his horror at lying in “a spectacular quantity of blood” after the frenzied onstage attack that very nearly claimed his life two years ago.
The British-Indian author, 76, writes that he was stabbed “13 or 14 times” in August 2022 while preparing to deliver a lecture on free speech at the Chautauqua Institution in New York.
In a frank memoir, Sir Salman recalls “this murderous shape rushing towards me”, a “murderous ghost from the past”, who for six weeks, permanently damage his hand, and blind him in one eye.
