{"product_id":"knife-isbn-9780593946138","title":"Knife","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOn the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, 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 toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: \u003ci\u003eSo it’s you. Here you are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWhat followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Knife\u003c\/i\u003e is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature’s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again.“Candid, plain-spoken and gripping . . . \u003ci\u003eKnife\u003c\/i\u003e is a clarifying book. It reminds us of the threats the free world faces. It reminds us of the things worth fighting for.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Knife\u003c\/i\u003e isn’t so much about pondering imminent death than it is an affirmation—an insistence—on returning to life.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The subject—the idea for which Rushdie nearly died—is the freedom to say what he wants . . . Rushdie survived, but he has too many scars to be certain that the idea will. This book is his way of fighting back.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brave and beautiful book that tells his story with a cathartic relish, no gruesome detail spared . . . this book is as much a love letter to his wife—the poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths—as it is a punch-back at his assailant.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSalman Rushdie’s memoir is horrific, upsetting—and a masterpiece . . . \u003ci\u003eKnife \u003c\/i\u003eis a tour-de-force, in which the great novelist takes his brutal near-murder and spins it into a majestic essay on art, pain and love . . . full of Rushdie’s wit, his wisdom, his stoicism, his optimism, his love of all culture.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eKnife\u003c\/i\u003e is in part about—and in some sense itself \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e—a battle between the two most prominent Rushdies: Great Writer and Great Man, artist and advocate, private person and public figure . . . Contains some of the most precise, chilling prose of his career.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eNot just a candid and fearless book but—against all odds—a defiantly witty one . . . A ‘reckoning’, if not quite a catharsis, Rushdie’s invigorating dispatch from (almost) the far side of death’s door names and limits the attack as ‘a large red ink blot.’”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rushdie’s triumph is not to be other: despite his terrible injuries and the threat he still lives under, he remains incorrigibly himself, as passionate as ever about art and free speech.”\u003cb\u003e—The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eKnife\u003c\/i\u003e is testament to Rushdie’s convictions and to the sustaining power of love as he focuses on the suffering and support of his family and his wife, writer and artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths, during this ordeal . . . every electrifying page elicits tears and awe.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A graceful meditation on life and death that captures Rushdie at his most observant and lyrical.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Random House Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302258364645,"sku":"NP9780593946138","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593946138.jpg?v=1742926826","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/knife-isbn-9780593946138","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}