Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

布克獎得主、知名作家薩爾曼．魯西迪，講述了他在追殺令發布後，這三十年間的經歷。
 
　　魯西迪在本書親述2022年8月12日震驚全球的刺殺事件。自他的作品《魔鬼詩篇》問世後，伊朗最高領導人以該書褻瀆先知穆罕默德為由，對其下達追殺令。三十多年來，他始終活在死亡威脅之下，而這道陰影更在2022年的夏天化為具體的刀刃──他在一場文學活動中遇刺、身受重傷。
 
　　這部作品是對人生、失去、愛與藝術扣人心弦的思索，魯西迪以藝術作為對暴力的回應，展現了文字所能帶來的巨大力量。(文/博客來編譯)

　　From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him

　　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.

Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen novels--Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moor’s Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Fury; Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence; Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights; The Golden House; Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize); and Victory City--and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published five works of nonfiction--The Jaguar Smile; Imaginary Homelands; Step Across This Line; Joseph Anton; and Languages of Truth--and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.