Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in April 2024 by Jonathan Cape. The book recounts the stabbing attack on Rushdie in 2022 at Chautauqua Institution in Western New York State. It hit number one in the Sunday Times Bestsellers List in the General hardbacks category. Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses had led to a widespread controversy among Muslims, prompting the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran.

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