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.