“Love is a force – and when it’s unleashed, it can actually have a powerful effect in the real world.”
After surviving a horrific assassination attempt, Salman Rushdie writes not just about death, but about life and love in his new memoir Knife. I spoke with him about it.
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“27 seconds when somebody has a knife and is attacking you is a really long time. So we had this long moment of lethal intimacy.”
Salman Rushdie says he “cannot draw a line under this event” until his attacker has been sentenced.
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Knife by Salman Rushdie is a true miracle. Yes, it describes in painful detail the horror of what happened, but it’s also a mediation on happiness and love. Surviving the attack took strength, but this kind of writing takes wisdom.
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