TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rushdie,Salman
TI  - Knife: meditations after an attempted murder 
SN  - 9780593730249
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Rushdie, Salman.
KW  - Rushdie, Salman
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Attempted assassination
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Chautauqua
KW  - Attempted murder
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Part one: The angel of death. Knife -- Eliza -- Hamot -- Rehab -- Part two: The angel of life. Homecoming -- The A. -- Second chance -- Closure?
N2  - 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; During those empty, sleepless nights, I thought a lot about The Knife as an idea. A knife was a tool, and acquired meaning from the use we made of it. Language, too, was a knife. It could cut open the world and reveal its meaning, its inner workings, its secrets, its truths. It could cut through from one reality to another. It could call bullshit, open people's eyes, create beauty. Language was my knife. If I had unexpectedly been caught in an unwanted knife fight, maybe this was the knife I could use to fight back.--Back cover
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