Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' is unflinching about his brutal stabbing and uncanny in its vital spirit
by Hillel Italie
Apr 16, 2024
3 minutes
In Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliving the day he thought might be his last.
“At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in upstate , I was attacked and almost killed by a young man with a knife just after I came out on stage at the amphitheater in Chautauqua to talk about the importance of keeping writers safe
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