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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 black—black clothes, black mask—rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are. More about this book >
Salman Rushdie is the bestselling author of 23 books, including Midnight’s Children, for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker Prize; Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories; two memoirs, Joseph Anton and Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three collections of essays, including Languages of Truth. His work has been translated into over 40 languages.
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