RT Book
T1 Knife: meditations after an attempted murder
A1 Rushdie, Salman 1947-
LA English
PP New York
PB Random House
YR 2024
ED First U.S. edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1880719177
AB 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
AB 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
CN PR6068.U757
SN 9780593730249
K1 Rushdie, Salman
K1 Rushdie, Salman : Assassination attempts
K1 Authors, English : 20th century : Biography
K1 Attempted assassination : New York (State) : Chautauqua
K1 Attempted Murder : New York (State) : Chautauqua
K1 Écrivains anglais - 20e siècle - Biographies
K1 Tentatives d'assassinat - New York (État) - Chautauqua
K1 Tentative de meurtre - New York (État) - Chautauqua
K1 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Personal Memoirs
K1 BIO002000
K1 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
K1 Biography: general
K1 Biography: literary
K1 Memoirs
K1 Ethnic Studies
K1 autobiographies (literary works)
K1 Autobiographies
K1 Autobiografie
K1 Rushdie, Salman : 1947- : Attentat : Geschichte 2022