Rushdie at the cutting edge

Knife is Rushdie's graphic account of the attack and his recovery interlaced with the love story of Rushdie and his current wife, Rachel Eliza Griffith

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Author: Salman Rushdie

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Price: Rs 699   

Pages: 210

I began my review of Victory City thus: “Rejoice, for Salman Rushdie, … is back, at the peak of his form” (Business Standard, February 25, 2023).  I must use the same exhortation to cheer at the start of this review of his latest book, this time a memoir, with an even greater emphasis, for we very nearly lost Rushdie shortly after he turned in the  Victory City manuscript.  A young man with a knife attacked him on the  stage at