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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
4.25
challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced
A thoughtful selection from Rushdie regarding the attack on him in 2022, reflections on the Fatwah, on mortality, on familial and romantic love with some reflections on religion, free speech and the role of the artist. Rushdie's novels typically exhibit lyrical and beautiful if sometimes challenging prose.  Here, Rushdie's writes with a bit more immediacy and much more accessible, his literary quotes and references all offered with quick explanation.  
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