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SOURCE: INDIANEXPRESS
More than a year after he was stabbed in a lecture hall in western New York, while delivering a speech onstage, losing an eye and being severely hurt in his left hand, forced into months of isolation and recovery, Booker-winning novelist Salman Rushdie has announced a memoir on the attack.
“This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art,” shared Rushdie in a statement.
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder comes out April 16, published by Penguin Random House, his publisher for his latest and 15th novel, Victory City, about a 14th-century princess who gave rise to the historical Vijayanagara empire with the power of words and storytelling.
“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,” reads the description on the Penguin website. More details are awaited.