Knife
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4.3 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
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.
©2024 Salman Rushdie (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Customer Reviews
Sadly an old wokester who hasn’t learnt
I was so interested in this book as I know that he was a friend of Hitchens and I’m sure he’ll have interesting things to say about considering what he has been through. I hadn’t read another of his books before this.
It wasn’t long into the text when he started on with his progressive politics. George Zimmerman‘s acquittal was disgraceful apparently and white people are the only people who don’t know that they are a race and so on.
It hit me that this guy is just a progressive who’s got bitten by his own Wokery, has not yet learned the valuable lesson about where blasphemy and sacred ideas can lead to despite nearly losing his life