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A review by kaydee_reads
Knife by Salman Rushdie
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Rushdie doesn’t shy away from the hard parts of his experience, but he also highlights a lot of hope. His voice is conversational, confessional, and draws you in. Much of the story is meditative, and dwells on the inevitability of death, but also the joy of still being alive. It’s the kind of book that makes you sit down and think about how lucky you are to still live right now, despite the many terrible things in the world.
Very occasionally I found myself lost - he references a lot of names that I assume are other authors or literary agents or other people in his industry, who I assume may be somewhat well known, as if he expects the reader to know them too. But it doesn’t really matter at the end of the day - they’re people in his life and it’s easy enough to just classify the name dropping as “the author’s friends” and leave it at that.
The strongest relationship was Eliza, and his book has inspired me to look for her poetry, as the little bits of her writing he referenced was beautiful. Ultimately, this book is more about love than anything else, and I loved that about it.
Very occasionally I found myself lost - he references a lot of names that I assume are other authors or literary agents or other people in his industry, who I assume may be somewhat well known, as if he expects the reader to know them too. But it doesn’t really matter at the end of the day - they’re people in his life and it’s easy enough to just classify the name dropping as “the author’s friends” and leave it at that.
The strongest relationship was Eliza, and his book has inspired me to look for her poetry, as the little bits of her writing he referenced was beautiful. Ultimately, this book is more about love than anything else, and I loved that about it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic