Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduringand survivingan attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in blackblack clothes, black maskrushed down the aisle