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Salman Rushdie’s ‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’ is out now

The memoir based on the incident of 2022 has been published by Penguin Random House and is available in India

Salman Rushdie’s powerful memoir on the life-threatening attack on him on August 12, 2022 is out now. The author has titled the book Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. Rushdie was reportedly attacked in Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, in New York, where he was present to deliver a lecture. The attack cost him an eye and the use of a hand. 

“This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art” — said the International Booker Prize awardee about the book to Penguin Random House. Knife has been published by Random House on April 16, 2024. 

You can order the book here.

— Pooja Mitra

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