Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
by Salman Rushdie
Knife is Salman Rushdie’s memoir written after he was attacked in 2022 and left blind in one eye. The book is dedicated “to the men and women who saved my life.” Like his first memoir, it’s very readable.
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