Helga's Reviews > Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
by
by
We would not be who we are today without the calamities of our yesterdays.
Knife is Rushdie’s account of the attempt on his life on August 11, 2022 in Chautauqua during a lecture.
He begins this autobiographical contemplation from the day before the horrifying incident and takes us to a journey which would have been filled with unbearable pain, hopelessness and despair but for the love and helping hands of his wife, family and friends.
I have always believed that love is a force, that in its most potent form it can move mountains. It can change the world.
This book is the sum of experiences of one man on the brink of death.
This book is heartbreaking and shocking. It is funny and bright. It makes you laugh, chuckle and often shed tears.
This book is a closing of a circle.
We begin from violence; from blood and tears. We ponder. We evaluate. We question.
We say, bravo! We say, he did it, so can we.
This book brightens the mood and defines life anew.
One has to find life, I said. One can’t just sit about recovering from near death. One has to find life.
Knife is Rushdie’s account of the attempt on his life on August 11, 2022 in Chautauqua during a lecture.
He begins this autobiographical contemplation from the day before the horrifying incident and takes us to a journey which would have been filled with unbearable pain, hopelessness and despair but for the love and helping hands of his wife, family and friends.
I have always believed that love is a force, that in its most potent form it can move mountains. It can change the world.
This book is the sum of experiences of one man on the brink of death.
This book is heartbreaking and shocking. It is funny and bright. It makes you laugh, chuckle and often shed tears.
This book is a closing of a circle.
We begin from violence; from blood and tears. We ponder. We evaluate. We question.
We say, bravo! We say, he did it, so can we.
This book brightens the mood and defines life anew.
One has to find life, I said. One can’t just sit about recovering from near death. One has to find life.
Sign into Goodreads to see if any of your friends have read
Knife.
Sign In »
Reading Progress
August 22, 2024
–
Started Reading
August 22, 2024
– Shelved
August 22, 2024
–
4.78%
"There are things that are lost in the past, where we all end up, most of us forgotten."
page
10
August 24, 2024
–
14.35%
"On such coin-toss moments a life can turn. Chance determines our fates at least as profoundly as choice, or those nonexistent notions karma, qismat, “destiny.”"
page
30
August 26, 2024
–
55.02%
"...the first lesson of free expression—that you must take it for granted. If you are afraid of the consequences of what you say, then you are not free."
page
115
August 27, 2024
–
81.34%
"There’s a thing I used to say back in the day, when catastrophe rained down upon The Satanic Verses and its author: that one way of understanding the argument over that book was that it was a quarrel between those with a sense of humor and those without one. I see you now, my failed murderer, hypocrite assassin, mon semblable, mon frère. You could try to kill because you didn’t know how to laugh."
page
170
August 27, 2024
– Shelved as:
biography-autobiography-memoir
August 27, 2024
– Shelved as:
nonfiction
August 27, 2024
–
Finished Reading
Comments Showing 1-10 of 10 (10 new)
date
newest »
message 1:
by
Jeroen
(new)
Aug 27, 2024 11:45AM
reply
|
flag
Admittedly, I haven't read anything else by Rushdie. Having a dark sense of humor myself, I understood him so well and loved his writing style and honesty.
Merci, mon ami! :)
Thanks, Theresa! Despite the name of the book and the circumstances, it was a healing book. Hope you'll like it too! x
Thanks, Ian! I have seen the video, but reading the book I realised how bad the attack had been. He was stabbed multiple times, lost his left arm's function and his right eye. The book was uplifting, though.
Indeed it is sad, Michael and thanks for reading my review! I confess I haven't yet read anything by him, as I don't care much for fantasy. But after getting to know his prose and smooth writing in this book, I will read his works in the future.