A review by coffeenquotations
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

I will always appreciate Salman Rushdie’s works. Fiction or non-fiction, they hold many well written & universal truths without being pompous or condescending. Rushdie has done this again with Knife. A near death experience is, of course, harrowing to say the least. But a near death experience that has been hanging over one’s head & at the hand’s of someone who has chosen to hate you based on merely their idea of you is another matter. While it’s unlikely most if not almost all of us will experience something like this, I think Knife is an important read— to know what happened from Rushdie’s perspective, sure, but also for the wisdom & humanity that is within his word. These lessons could be carried into all of our lives.
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