Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie

Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder, Salman RushdieNew Paperback On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black black clothes, black mask rushed down the aisle towards him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So its you. Here you are. What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, Rushdie

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