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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